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Culinary

Flavor-Packed Culinary Creations

Backed by market and consumer research, we combine our extensive savory flavor expertise and ingredient portfolio with product design skills to help you meet ever-evolving needs, creating delicious culinary foods that resonate with consumers.

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Explore Our Culinary Solutions

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Bouillon

From cubes and powders to liquids and pastes, bouillons have been a trusted way to bring rich, savory flavors to life in kitchens everywhere.

With IFF’s innovative culinary solutions, we help create these essential ingredients, perfect for both home cooks and professional chefs alike.

Key Challenges We Address: 

  • Meeting Taste Expectations of Chicken and Beef
  • Delivering Umami taste Impact
  • Consumer-Friendly Labels
  • Affordability of Bouillon Recipes
  • Lower Sodium Content
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Top Culinary Flavors

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Chicken

Our chicken flavor profiles authentically mimic the culinary benchmarks of boiled, roasted, and grilled chicken, offering impactful, affordable solutions that meet global market regulations and cater to natural labeling demands. Tailored for a wide range of products, our flavors ensure taste stability and performance, even in heavily processed foods.

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Beef

Our beef flavor profiles capture the essence of boiled, roasted, grilled, and stewed beef, delivering a rich, authentic taste that meets global market standards and aligns with the growing demand for natural labeling. Tailored to perform across various product types, our flavor solutions offer versatility and impact.

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Cheese

IFF uses advanced EMC technologies to craft tailored flavors for cheeses like Cheddar, Gouda, and Roquefort, as well as vegan cheese alternatives. Our flavors enhance cheese sauces, pasta fillings, ready meals, and more with authentic taste and texture.

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Onion

Onion is key to elevating any dish, and IFF offers a full range of flavors, from fried and roasted to red onion and shallot, enhanced by natural extracts. Our solutions tackle pricing and quality challenges in onion-based products, ensuring consistent, quality results in food formulations.

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Umami

Umami, one of the five basic tastes, is essential for creating rich, complex flavors in culinary products. In response to the demand for more health-focused options, IFF offers natural umami flavorings, providing a tasty alternative to traditional enhancers like MSG, while intensifying flavor impact in complete formulations.

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Salt

Salt has long been a staple in food preparation for its functionality, taste, and low cost, but its overuse has raised consumer health concerns. IFF offers tailored solutions to help reduce sodium while maintaining great taste, working closely with customers to develop customized, high-performing alternatives.

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Herbs

IFF’s collection of extracts, essential oils, and encapsulated herb flavors—ranging from thyme and basil to lovage and tarragon—support unmatched product performance. These versatile flavors are used across major food applications, including soups, sauces, ready meals, and processed meats.

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Spices

IFF offers an extensive range of extracts, essential oils, and encapsulated spice flavors, from popular choices like pepper and nutmeg to unique options like fennel and caraway, all designed for optimal taste and performance. These spice flavors are ideal for elevating soups, sauces, ready meals, and processed meats across a variety of food applications.

How Will Our Culinary Ingredients Improve Your Product?

Bouillon
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Fermented sauce
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Dry soup mix
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Instant noodles
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Ketchup
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Mayonnaise
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Pasta
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A plate of spaghetti
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Plant-based meat
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Plant-based seafood
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Processed meat
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Ready meals
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Igniting Innovation

At IFF, we transform everyday food into unforgettable moments, delighting consumers with exceptional products.

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RE-IMAGINE WELLNESS™ 

RE-IMAGINE WELLNESS™ combines science and nature to transform Culinary food products, lowering sodium, boosting Taste Richness and Mouthfeel while introducing advanced plant proteins for a more balanced, mindful option.

Crafting a sustainable and healthier future through the power of science and nature .

Innovation Focus Areas:

Modulation:

  • Intensifying Umami perception
  • Natural and NFL (Non-Flavor-labelled)
  • Mouthfeel for fat and sugar reduction
  • High impact, cost effective solutions.
  • Sodium reduction
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RE-IMAGINE SIMPLE™

Simplifying your innovation journey to great tasting, cleaner, simpler, and more sustainable products

Innovation Focus Areas:

Label-friendly & Natural Taste Solutions:

  • Natural processing technologies enabling label-friendly, simple ingredient declaration with recognizable ingredients.
  • Innovation via biotechnologies, e.g. Natural Fermentation
  • Applying a Transparent & Responsible Supply Chain

Waste Reduction via Upcycling:

  • Open Innovation to introduce new Upcycled Taste Solutions, enabling Sustainability Positioning
  • Promoting IFF PRODUCT DESIGN™ capabilities with our existing Upcycled   Certified Flavoring Extracts and Ingredients
  • Leveraging IFF Processing capabilities to help valorize customer side streams
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RE-IMAGINE DELIVERY™

With RE-IMAGINE DELIVERY™, we create captivating Product Designs that elevate sensorial experiences.

Our Innovation Focus Areas: 

  • Product Experience:

Flavor delivery technologies and Product Designs that deliver the desired sensorial experience at every consumer touchpoint

  • Flavor Performance:

Delivery systems and flavor designs with outstanding performance in food manufacturing processing and the final product

  • Sustainability:

Technologies that require fewer resources enabling a reduction of environmental impact in the supply chain

  • Clean Label:

Technologies that allow a cleaner consumer-preferred ingredient declaration

IFF Cure™

Facing high prices, volatility, and regulatory challenges, food and beverage manufacturers feel the pressure. IFF’s CURE program offers solutions to optimize products for lasting success.

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Smoke Free Smoke Flavors

Responding to changing Flavor regulation for Smoke Flavorings , IFF developed new Flavor technologies to allow its customers to comply with new labeling requirements and create great tasting products.

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Meet Our Expert

As a Culinary Designer at IFF, every Taste Design is an opportunity to innovate, celebrate local flavors, and foster healthier, more meaningful connections with our customers.

Sanjayawati Cuaca,
Senior Designer – Greater Asia Region
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Transform Ideas into Market-Ready Innovations

Bring your vision to life with IFF’s expertise in food and beverage innovation. Together, we can turn bold ideas into groundbreaking solutions.