Definition

Food flavor refers to aromatic material added to food to boost quality and appeal.
Flavor : Refers to food flavor that contains the natural taste, texture, stimulation of food as well as fragrance.

• Need
  There is growing demand for a wider variety of food flavors boosted by the increasing use of processed foods, a growing food service industry, and changes in lifestyle and eating habits resulting from a fast- growing economy and industrialization.
  Generally, raw materials for food flavors include both synthetic and natural flavors, but they are increasingly being replaced with natural raw materials to meet customer demands. Such a trend toward natural raw materials is attributable to an increased interest in health. Fragrance, taste, and natural characteristics of food all play an impor-tant role in determining a customer's purchase.
• Role
  • Flavor adding
    For such products as chewing gum and candy that have no particular taste, flavor is added to give them character.
  • Enrichment
    For either enrichment of the original flavor of raw material or for promoting taste and flavor that is lost in the production process.
  • Masking
    To mask unpleasant flavors that naturally occur in raw materials.

Classification

• Natural Flavor
  Derived from nature by way of extraction or distillation and used to enhance or enrich flavors using purified or natural extracts (including distillated water ).
  
  • Type
    
    • Essential oil
    • Absolute
    • Resinoid
    • Oleoresin
    • Tincture & Infusion
    • Enzyme Flavor
    • Concrete
    • Recovery Flavor
    • Reaction Flavor
• Identical Flavour
  
  • Nature-Identical Flavor
    Chemically compounded flavor with chemical materials.
  • Artificial Flavor
    Artificially processed flavor with other than natural- identical flavor
• Blend Flavour
  Blend flavor refers to a flavor that is newly- created by the way it is blended with other flavors,and the act of making a blend flavor is called "Blending".

Purpose