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Overflowing with Flavor Extracts for Beverages
We are a full-service beverage flavoring company with a library that spans the RTD gamut. Improve taste. Test ideas. Create taste trends. Whatever your flavor needs, we can mix up a premium solution.
Health and wellness in a bottle
Athletes, gamers, corporate professionals, students – these highly disparate markets have one thing in common: They all buy functional RTD beverages. Their reasons are different; sports nutrition, leveling up performance, energy and focus, mood influencing. But the RTD applications they reach for are often the same. Bubbly waters, infused spritzers, elixirs, juices, tonics, and shots.
The functional ingredient list is growing every year and each one comes with flavor difficulties, particularly in beverage form. Adaptogenic mushrooms that impart a bitter, earthy aftertaste, for example. With our beverage development expertise and our ever-growing portfolio of wellness in all its flavors, we have the functionally inspired taste profiles for the modern wellness brand.
Drink Up Delicious Extracts
Vanilla
Lavender-Vanilla functional bubbly or a Vanilla Cardamom energy drink – with premium vanilla extracts from a world leader in industrial vanilla production.
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Tea
Hot Cinna-Citrus Peel Green Tea. Chilled Banana Nut Chai. The flavor pairings are endless with our single-source and all-natural tea products.
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Coffee
Functional coffees that come with an extra kick – Cold Brew Açaí, Pumpkin Blueberry Nitro – always with a bold, smooth profile.
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Cocoa
A Red Velvet Cake and Toffee protein drink. Hot chocolate and marshmallows milk. Our chocolate flavor library offers the indulgent, the unexpected.
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Full Flavor Expertise.
We are more than a beverage flavor manufacturer. We’re your partner in the entire RTD development process.
Flavor is greater than creating taste, though that in itself is an art. Flavor is also about overcoming taste challenges. With intricate refinement, creative masking and modulation, and distinguished characterizing. It’s ensuring you can perform vital taste tests in a dedicated beverage lab with emulsion expertise and lab-scale UHT processing capabilities. And, of course, the ability to prototype your RTD products.
At Virginia Dare, we have it all. Our capabilities draw on the knowledge of our dedicated flavorists and food scientists, the conceptual foresight of our market experts, and over 100 years of being in the business. We’re your full-flavor partner in top-shelf beverage applications.
A Powder That’s the Whole Package.
The powdered drink category is rapidly moving beyond the sugary, overly processed ways of the past. Consumers are more often demanding function, delicious taste, and a great sensory experience – hard to come by when mitigating threats like degradation and solubility. From supplements to high-performance proteins to soft drinks, our application expertise can help your packaged powders offer the highest quality sensory experience.
Beverage Benefits Consumers Want
It’s no surprise that hydration tops the list as the most important attribute of a beverage. Flavor is a close second, while function follows after.
Source: Bloomberg Intelligence, Attest
Boozeless Beverages On the Rise
Bottled water remains the most sought-after non-alcoholic drink, with hot tea and coffee on its heels. Soda and juice still hold weight over milk/dairy, sports drinks, and RTDs.
Source: Bloomberg Intelligence, Attest
Alcoholic Drinks to Lift Spirits
Beer holds the top spot on the board, with wine trailing after. Hard Seltzer claimed 3rd, followed by both spirits and RTD cocktails. Non-alcoholic mocktails and CBD-infused are a growing subset.
Source: Bloomberg Intelligence, Attest
Consumers Open to CBD Drinks
A total of over 60 percent of consumers have either tried CBD-infused drinks and would again, or haven’t but would consider it, making this a promising beverage market.
Source: Bloomberg Intelligence, Attest
