Flavorchem’s goal is to deliver the highest quality products with minimum turn-around time. Our outstanding Research and Development department has an experienced, knowledgeable R&D team and state of the art equipment, allowing us to deliver our customers the highest quality products with minimum turn-around time. R&D services include flavor creation, matching, and masking as well as color creation and matching.
Flavorchem’s full-service laboratory is staffed with certified flavorists, food scientists, applications specialists, and technicians. Lab personnel are trained in all aspects of flavor chemistry and applications and work hard developing innovative solutions and superior products. Our customers are invited and encouraged to participate throughout the process; they are often on-site, standing side by side with our R&D team and providing feedback and input as their product is created. This direct contact between you and the lab staff can often shorten timelines by expediting the product development process.
- Quick turn-around time for sample requests (same or next day service is available)
Technology, Analytical Support, & Other Services:
- Gas Chromatography (GC) & Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectroscopy (GC/MS)
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME)
- Distillation
- Extraction and reaction flavor technology
- Homogenization
- Spray Drying
- Sensory Analysis
- TTB (Alcohol & Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau)
Applications Kitchen
Using and tasting our products in the same way our customer will is crucial in their development and optimization. Flavorchem’s applications kitchen aids our R&D team in tailoring our flavor and color solutions to ensure ideal performance in your products. It is outfitted with top-of-the-line kitchen and specialty applications equipment that includes:
- A Wolf Oven for baking and other applications. The oven includes a stove top with a built-in grill and infrared griddle for perfecting grilling applications.
- A convection oven and proof box for baking/bread application
- Beverage dispensing system and carbonation equipment to make both carbonated and still beverage products
- Coffee and espresso machines/testing equipment
- Candy making equipment, including panning equipment
- Frozen slush machines
- Deep fryer
- Donut machine
- An ice cream machine for testing flavors in ice cream/sorbets
