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Create an expert gourmet flavor signature for your health foods
Consumers’ eating and buying habits seem to be evolving under the influence of various institutional campaigns around nutrition which are focused on the market for so-called “functional” food products, i.e. those with a positive impact on health, as well as dietary supplements with a health positioning, a market that is currently booming.
The more specialized diet and sports nutrition products are also in demand to supplement diets that meet very specific needs.
To respond to this surge in market demand, this sector must invest heavily in ongoing research and innovation, integrating ever healthier, natural and scientifically-proven ingredients while offering organoleptic profiles that will appeal to consumers.
Taste remains a major criterion for selection and satisfaction in this market, which has an ever-increasing number of players.
The top flavors by sector
Health food
Red fruits
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Apple
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Apricot
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Chocolate
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Strawberry
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Nutrition drinks
Ginger
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Strawberry
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Chocolate
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Lemon
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Raspberry
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Our flavors, an infinite taste for a mosaic of challenges
Consumers want to eat healthy, low-calorie, high-fiber foods; they want to lose weight, adopt a diet to improve their health and reduce the risk of disease. However, they still want to consume gourmet products. With this in mind, we’ve come up with solutions to reduce the sugar, fat and undesirable notes in your consumers’ diets.
Active solutions
With an awareness of public health issues and the desire to support the food industry in its quest to “eat better”, we have developed a range of natural flavors to meet these trends, called Acti-Sens.
Our Acti’Sens range of flavoring solutions enables you to redesign your products to meet the specific needs of dietary regimes, while providing optimal energy intake. This solution is suited equally well to products intended for sports nutrition as to everyday food.
Mask off-notes, reduce sugar and fat
Acti-Boost Sweet and Acti-Boost Fat gives you the means to redesign your products to meet the taste expectations of your consumers. These natural flavors enable you to reduce sugar and fat in your applications by up to 50%, without compromising taste, for more balanced meals.
Enriching a recipe with protein (whether from peas, yeast, soy, etc.) and amino acids can cause unwanted notes. Acti-Mask cleans up the profile of your products by reducing or cancelling out these acidic, bitter, yeasty, or medicated notes.
Caramels
and fillings
Metarom has another line of business that is dedicated to the creation and production of specialty caramels, flavored caramels, fillings and sauces… obviously with a whole range of sauces and low-fat fillings intended for dietary supplements, among other things. These fillings enable you to combine health and pleasure in a variety of forms, while working on the nutritional aspects of your applications.
It is also since 1953 that Metarom has been developing limitless collections of fillings and toppings for caramels and other warm, fruity notes for depositing or injection – before or after baking.
Our Market Newsletters
Metarom has been sharing resources linked to trends in the various sweet food markets since the beginning of 2021.
We are currently analyzing 7 sectors: cereal products (cookies + yellow dough), ice cream, dairy products and plant-based desserts, non-alcoholic soft drinks, beer and spirits.
Marketing teams are analysing the trends in these markets, changes in flavor notes, regulatory updates, etc. Translated into English and German, our Lettres Marchés – or “Market Newsletters” – is a library of important resources of information for food manufacturers.
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