{"id":38989,"date":"2025-11-17T20:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iff.com\/?post_type=team&#038;p=38989"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:55:11","slug":"richard-cai","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.iff.com\/es\/experts\/richard-cai\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Cai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"m-block  gt-l gb-l --bg-white --decor-blue --pattern-v0 --decor --stats-type1 txt-img-v2 l-content-2\"  >\n\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"m-block__container container\" style=\"\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"l-dcbl l-dcbl-v1\">\n\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"c-block order-reverse\" style=\"--c-block-radius:0px; --c-block-gl: 0%;--c-block-gr: 0%;--c-block-gt: 0%;--c-block-gb: 0%;--columns-ratio: 50%;\">\n\t<div class=\"c-block__col c-block__text text-left align-center\" style=\"--c-txt-gl: 0%; --c-txt-gr: 0%; --c-txt-gt: 0%; --c-txt-gb: 0%;\">\n\t\t<div class=\"c-block__inner\">\n\t\t\t<div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t    <div class=\"c-heading -h2\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2  class=\"c-heading__title\">Notable Achievements <\/h2>\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t    <\/div>\n\t<div class=\"c-heading__description is-wysiwyg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Creator of IFF&#8217;s &#8220;Umami Toolbox&#8221;: <\/b>Developed a modular savory system that maintains full meaty and umami impact while enabling significant reductions in added MSG and I+G. 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