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When you ask someone to name their favorite flavor, you’re going to hear vanilla quite a bit. Despite it being so familiar, vanilla is an incredibly complex ingredient. Beverage Industry recently featured our Marketing & Consumer Insights Manager Philip Caputo in an article on this very topic! “The growers we work with understand that deliveringContinue reading “Nostalgic taste of vanilla shines as perennial favorite”
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Coffee and Tea Extracts and Ingredients: Additives Consumers Trust
Coffee and tea continue to rapidly grow in popularity. Despite being enjoyed for centuries, both categories continue to be exciting sources of innovation. Virginia Dare has long been a leader in premium coffee and tea extracts, and was recently featured in a Food Processing article on new trends in this space. Please read the fullContinue reading “Coffee and Tea Extracts and Ingredients: Additives Consumers Trust”
WHITE PAPER: Overcoming Flavor Challenges in Performance Nutrition
Sports nutrition brands face three primary product development challenges: 1) selecting ingredients that effectively enhance athletes’ performance and recovery 2) offering distinctive, compelling products that stand out among an over-abundance of choices and 3) delivering a delicious, satisfying experience that will inspire repeat purchase. Success in this category depends not only on understanding how trendingContinue reading “WHITE PAPER: Overcoming Flavor Challenges in Performance Nutrition”
Chocolate offers range of sustainability options for consumers
Who doesn’t love chocolate? Who doesn’t love sustainability? Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery featured both in a recent article that featured Virginia Dare’s portfolio of extracts and flavors, which include: Chocolate flavors, from milk chocolate to chocolate pudding and hot fudge, classic chocolate flavors that consumers know and recognize Chocolate flavor keys, custom flavor systems,Continue reading “Chocolate offers range of sustainability options for consumers”
When enhancing the flavor, enhance your label, too
Clean label and great taste can live in harmony. Food Processing featured some ways that brands can achieve this balance in a recent article, highlighting our Taste Improvement platform. “We improve taste with customizable, integrated taste refinement systems for masking and modulation,” Virginia Dare is quoted in the article. “Masking systems selectively mask off-tastes andContinue reading “When enhancing the flavor, enhance your label, too”
5 Things You May Not Have Known About Plant-Based Formulations
Virginia Dare’s Marketing & Consumer Insights Manager Philip Caputo was recently featured in a Food Processing Q&A on the plant-based trend. Within the piece, we discuss the common misconceptions in this categories, barriers formulators may face (and how to overcome them), and what’s in store for this category in the future. You can read theContinue reading “5 Things You May Not Have Known About Plant-Based Formulations”
Trending ingredients and techniques for a new era of baked goods
The past few years, we’ve observed trends like clean label, keto-friendly, reduced sugar, plant-based, gluten-free, non-GMO, and more make their way into the baked goods space. These trends present challenges for bakers, which can be addressed with key ingredients that Prepared Foods featured in a recent article, such as natural, Madagascar vanilla. As the marketContinue reading “Trending ingredients and techniques for a new era of baked goods”
Taste profiles continue to improve for natural sweeteners
Natural sweeteners are all the rage in the beverage category, as consumers pressure brands to remove sugar for their application while maintaining great taste. Beverage Industry wrote an article on this trend, featuring our Marketing & Consumer Insights Manager Philip Caputo. “Natural and zero-calorie sweeteners achieve the goal of reducing sugar content in applications butContinue reading “Taste profiles continue to improve for natural sweeteners”
Coffee drives new product development in food, beverage
Coffee. Many of us rely on it every day, and for that reason, it’s starting to find its way into different food and beverage categories for its beloved flavor and aromatics, as well as its esteemed functional properties. Beverage Industry recently published an article on the rise of coffee as an ingredient, and featured ourContinue reading “Coffee drives new product development in food, beverage”
Ingredients for coffee, tea and juice provide new opportunities
The past few years have been exciting ones for the tea and coffee spaces. Virginia Dare’s Marketing & Consumer Insights Manager Philip Caputo was recently featured in a Dairy Foods article on the trends shaping these two exciting markets. We’re anticipating lots of hybridization in these categories over the next few years – including RTD hard/spikedContinue reading “Ingredients for coffee, tea and juice provide new opportunities”