While the vanilla industry is seeing low prices and low demand this year, Virginia Dare’s partnerships with 1,300 growers in Madagascar are focused on fortifying communities’ livelihoods through social, environmental and economic initiatives that help...
At IFT FIRST 2023, food ingredient company Virginia Dare blew out the candles on the birthday cake and celebrated 100 years in business, as it showcased its range of ingredients in a host of beverages..
Vanilla Vida – an Israeli startup addressing the huge mismatch between supply and demand in the natural vanilla market – is exploring locations in the US as it ramps up its indoor growing platform for vanilla planifolia plants with significantly higher...
Despite the interruption in civil litigation prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, “more new class action lawsuits were filed against the food and beverage industry—220* cases [+23% vs 2019]—than in any other year of the past decade,” according to an analysis...
By Robert Guite and Abby Meyer, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
If your company sells any vanilla-flavored food or beverage product, then you are probably aware of the innumerable class action cases that have been filed over the last 18 months attacking these products – 67 cases by our count. Here, we trace the history...
Scientists have discovered the Vanilla bahiana orchid has 'good production potential' to become an alternative source of natural vanilla as it contains the right enzymes for vanillin biosynthesis.
The cycle of high demand, low supply, and therefore surging vanilla prices looks to be coming to an end, but challenges remain and there is unlikely to be a price collapse in the near term.
With vanilla bean prices skyrocketing in recent months, interest in alternatives with natural and clean label credentials is intensifying in mature markets in Western Europe and North America, although demand for artificial vanillin is still growing in...
The price of vanilla is expected to go higher due to supply shortages. Prova steps in with the launch of a new vanillin ingredient that falls within FDA labeling guidelines for ‘natural flavor.’
Synthetic biology, or GMO 2.0 as some are calling it, has vastly more penetration in the marketplace than was previously believed. That’s the takeaway from the assembly of the first list of such ingredients.
Incredible Foods – the firm behind allergy-friendly Perfectly Free frozen coconut bites – is gearing up for the 2018 launch of what it claims is a completely new form of snack: refrigerated bites with a 'grape-like' skin made from fruit and...
Change, whether good or bad,can be disquieting and push people toward the familiar, as likely will be the case for food and flavors in American in 2017 as a new president promising significant political shifts is sworn into office.
A ring-tailed lemur will be the new ringleader for Madécasse chocolate and vanilla, which will undergo a brand refresh this fall with new packaging designed to make the difficult-to-pronounce company’s products more accessible and memorable.
Synthetic biology will become a “permanent and growing aspect of the flavors & fragrances landscape” predicts a new report from Lux Research, which says the approach is more sustainable than traditional techniques such as synthesizing flavors from...
The dog days of summer are here and to help cool off consumers are reaching for ice cream, which a recent Yahoo Food survey found is 41% of American’s favorite dessert.
Cargill and Innova Market Insights have highlighted key trends for chocolate in 2015 including the rise of real fruit inclusions, texture claims and transparent ingredient labelling.
Symrise has opened a new €3m ($3.83m) vanilla extraction facility in Benavony, Madagascar - the latest milestone in its strategy to “establish the entire value chain for vanilla in its source country”.
Opponents of genetic modification say there is a new, potentially more powerful technology to contend with: synthetic biology. Purveyors of natural products who are concerned about this technique have coined the term for the way in which scientists have...
When it comes to reporting the position of some of the world’s biggest food companies on genetically engineered foods, Friends of the Earth, it seems, has been engaging in some pretty creative PR ‘engineering’ of its own.
Europeans tend to be quite conservative when it comes to flavour, but there are ways to create innovative tastes even around well-established popular flavours, says Euromonitor ingredients analyst Lauren Bandy.
Swiss-based Evolva Holding SA has announced that the food industry can expect its fermentation-derived vanillin product to be available for commercial launch in 2014, with fermentation-derived stevia and saffron following in 2015 & 2016.
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) has opened a new flavors facility in Guangzhou, China, as part of a $100m investment in Greater Asia as it looks to increase its presence in emerging markets.
International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF) and Switzerland-based Evolva Holding have said they have entered a pre-production phase for a natural vanillin flavour produced through fermentation.
Introducing a new flavor can be one way to reinvigorate a brand or to extend a line, but consumers will always return to their core flavor preferences, says an expert.
Steep hikes in world prices for black vanilla could mean higher production costs for premium ice cream makers, according to commodity analyst Mintec, which is advising ice cream producers to book their contracts for the spice now.
Sensient Flavors has launched new ice cream concepts that allow manufacturers to offer products that fit with seasonal consumer preferences, using fruit preparations with a 'fresh and healthy' appeal and added cookie, meringue and coffee bits.
Flavors and yeast extract company, Synergy is setting up a new flavor innovation and manufacturing facility near its current site at Wauconda, Illinois, north of Chicago.
Comax Flavors has released its predictions for flavor trends in 2011, dividing them between the comforting and familiar, and exotic, escapist flavors, as well as those that combine the two.
Virginia Dare has renewed a marketing push for its range of natural tea extracts and concentrates on the back of growing consumer perception of tea’s health-giving properties.
Symrise is highlighting its aldehyde-free vanillin flavor, which it said can be used in functional food, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications without compromising active ingredients or causing browning in products.
A study into the origin of Tahitian vanilla has provided insight into opportunities for breeding new commercial varieties of the popular spice, claim scientists.
Ingredients group Givaudan says it is making use of in-depth
knowledge on consumer preferences to drive innovation in the field
of vanilla ingredient supply and taste profiles.
French supplier Euringus has developed three organic, clean-label
Bourbon Madagascar vanilla extracts that retain the volatile
flavours and vary in strength.
Symrise, a manufacturing company of flavours and fragrances, seeks
to strengthen its farm-to-fork approach in vanilla production and
improve its international standing in the fragrance and flavouring
market through its integration...
Frutarom USA has introduced an alcohol-free concentrated vanilla
extract, which the firm claims is ideal for use in Halal goods and
heat-intense applications.
Encapsulating vanillin in beta-cyclodextrin could improve the water
solubility of the compound, as well as offering protection against
oxidative degradation, suggests research from Greece.
Food makers turn to wood-sourced vanillin as high oil prices
continue to put pressure on the price of petrochemical-based
vanilla alternatives, and natural vanilla stocks remain
vulnerable,writes Lindsey Partos.
Diversifying supplies and managing risk for the world's most
expensive, and popular, natural flavour, for the first time
ingredients giant Danisco receives a batch of sustainable organic
vanilla from an Indian monk, reports Lindsey...
Ice-cream manufacturers gearing up for the season should take note
as Haagen-Dazs and Unilever announce in the same week the
introduction of low-fat offerings for this summer, writes
Philippa Nuttall.
Spice company McCormick said yesterday that its Q1 profits and
sales were lower than expected, pushed down by struggling vanilla
prices, but remained confident for the rest of the year, writes
Philippa Nuttall.
Nearly half of the world's vanillin supplies are sourced from China
but since tighter production rules arrived there a few years ago
there are now only two major Chinese producers left in the country,
reports Lindsey Partos....
British flavours firm Synergy Flavours is bringing a new organic
vanilla extract to market, locking in suppliers from Madagascar to
help guarantee the source of a product rooted in a vulnerable
global crop.
The key ingredient in the most popular ice cream in the world faces
a rise in price, already at a 10 year high, as the worst cyclone in
two decades hits Madagascar, the leading producer of vanilla.
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