Natural flavours are used to develop profile, from clear seltzers and flavoured waters to juices, teas, and functional drinks. They’re selected not just for taste but also for stability across a range of pH levels, carbonation levels, and shelf-life requirements. Fruit powders can deliver flavour and body and offer a vehicle to add mouthfeel or support flavour claims, especially in reduced-sugar or concentrate formats.
Ingredients for Beverage Applications
Botanical sources such as carrot, spirulina, and hibiscus are used to deliver eye-catching shades that align with flavour cues, without impacting taste. Whether for a still drink or a sparkling one, these ingredients can deliver uniformity at scale without disrupting filling, pasteurisation or storage processes.
Some recent Beverage projects:
Various Carbonated Soft Drinks with 'combo' Flavouring concepts and Natural Colours
Flavoured ciders including Strawberry, Forest fruits and Lemon
Beverage shade comparison - Safflower
Natural colour stability assessment
Milk and Fruit Juice concept - 'Milky Juice'
Flavoured ciders including Peach-Mango, Coconut
Grapeskin comparison - Different pH
Shade comparison - Copper Chlorophyllin
Flavourings for Beverages
Flavours give the beverage its character, and though there will always be the traditional flavour options such as fruits and colas, unique twists are possible: for example using botanicals such as hibiscus and lavender, an something with bite such as chilli and nettle, or fusions of two or three flavours are a great way to stand out in the market.
Whether it’s a Still Drink / Juice Drink, CSD, Functional, Dairy, Iced Tea, Boba or any other type of beverage, our flavourists would love to work with you as you develop. We can help with trends or entire concepts, flavours to use on their own in beverages, or in an emulsion, to support a juice concentrate, adapt top-notes or increase sweetness.
Natural Colours for Beverages
Natural colours too play an essential role in the appeal of a beverage, with the visual appeal of a drink influencing a consumer’s purchasing decision particularly pertinent in beverage. Kanegrade develops and manufactures natural pigments derived from fruits, vegetables, and spices not only enhances the colour but gives a natural appeal and allows use of the ‘free-from artificial colours’ claim for the drink.
Another trend in the beverage industry is the use of fruit powders, which we manufacture by spray-drying a fruit juice concentrate or puree, and are an excellent way to add natural sweetness, colour and nutrients particularly suited to powdered beverages or incorporated into sachets.
To receive samples of our flavours, natural colours or fruit powders for use in your next beverage project, please get in touch. We look forward to working with you.
