Burgers enhanced with IFF Taste's meat flavor solutions are being flipped on a grill

Meat Flavor Solutions

Elevate Every Culinary Creation

Crafting culinary magic is our specialty, redefining taste with our exceptional meat flavor solutions. From juicy steaks to aromatic roasts, we elevate every dish to a masterpiece. Savor perfection — your palate deserves it.

*Sources: Wild Retreats and Mintel

 

  • Over 135 million tons
    of chicken are eaten annually — its versatility and affordability make it a go-to flavor across global cuisines.
  • #1
    Beef consistently ranks as the top meat flavor choice in markets like Brazil, the US & Germany.
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Redefining Meat Flavors

IFF Taste’s exceptional meat flavor solutions transform every dish and snack into a flavor-packed masterpiece. Elevate your culinary creations with our proprietary ingredient — the finest taste experience.

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An Authentic Experience

At IFF, we offer flavors that capture authentic cooking cues in meat and poultry — like braising, grilling, and charring — helping to recover notes lost during processing.

These flavors create distinctive, marketable profiles for your products, giving them a unique signature that aligns with the specific culinary profile desired, whether it’s roasted, oven-roasted, grilled, braised, cooked, broiled, seared or boiled.

82% of consumers

order ethnic flavors and cuisine, and 32% of those consumers are willing to pay more for authentic dishes.

Source:  Food industry executive.com

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Clean Label Flavors

Our meat flavors can be crafted to meet clean label standards.

Free from artificial additives and preservatives, and using natural ingredients like spices, essential oils and extracts, our flavor solutions adhere to USDA and FDA requirements to deliver authentic taste profiles with transparency and simplicity.

73% of consumers

are willing to pay a higher retail price for food and drink products made with ingredients they recognize and trust.

Source:  Foodbeverageinsider.com

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Expertise & Total Product Design

With extensive knowledge in culinary techniques and ingredient interactions, we craft flavors at IFF that authentically replicate the taste of braised, grilled, roasted and seared meats.

Our expertise ensures each flavor profile is tailored to enhance your product’s taste while meeting regulatory standards and consumer preferences for clean label ingredients.

70% of consumers

think taste is the most important purchase driver and the non-negotiable baseline for repurchase of a product.

Source: Mintel 

What Flavor Makes
Your Meat Perfect?

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  • Meaty

    Generic meaty notes

  • Boiled meat

    Cooked meat in water

  • Livery

    Livery, animalic and metallic characters

  • Animalic

    Animalic notes, mutton like

  • Roasted

    Roasted and burnt characters

  • Grilled

    Waxy, grilled and fatty notes of barbeque

  • Caramelized

    Caramelic, burnt, cooked, brown sugar profile

  • Smoky

    Smoky, ashy, woody notes

  • Tallow

    Fatty character and bloody note; reminiscent of tallow

  • Fatty

    Fatty, oily notes of chicken skin and marrow

  • Yeasty

    Yeasty notes like in beer, or bread

  • Savory

    HVP like, lovage

  • Eggy

    Sulfury eggy smell of rotten eggs, with a caramelized note

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  • Boiled meat
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  • Animalic
  • Roasted
  • Grilled
  • Caramelized
  • Smoky
  • Tallow
  • Fatty
  • Yeasty
  • Savory
  • Eggy
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