Custom Formulations
Driven by over a century of dairy flavor technology experience and the industry’s most comprehensive library of dairy, dairy-free, and vegan flavor technologies, the dairy flavor technology experts at Edlong are uniquely qualified to collaborate with you to deliver a custom flavor technology solution that addresses your product’s specific needs.
Dairy Can Be a Custom Solution
Decision-makers turn to Edlong for custom flavor technology formulations that address a number of different needs, from matching a product or flavor technology, to creating a new product, to enhancing or reformulating an existing product. We excel at delivering solutions to address your unique flavor technology needs and accelerate successful outcomes at every stage. Our process is fueled by collaboration which can provide the most value to you when we are engaged at the beginning of product development.
Solutions We Bring
Authentic Dairy & Dairy-Free Solutions
From baked goods, beverages, and ready-meals and sides to savory snacks, cheeses, desserts, sauces and more, the Edlong team has a mastered the process of developing the complex flavor technology profiles required to deliver authentic-tasting products that meet your custom formulation goals across a wide range of applications.
During our accelerated and simplified custom formulation process, our team becomes a true extension of your team. We are nimble, agile, and entrepreneurial, with the global expertise to help you accelerate innovation and commercialization. As one of the world’s largest independently-owned flavor technology houses, Edlong has the freedom, flexibility, and experience to provide recommendations beyond just flavor technology, and we have the ability to tap into our large network of industry partners to solve difficult challenges that others simply won’t – or can’t.
How the Edlong Formulation Process Delivers Custom flavor technology Solutions
While the Edlong team provides value no matter where you are in the product development process, our customers have experienced the most positive impact when including us from the beginning of their project, allowing our team to provide support from the start of the product development process up until the product hits the shelves.
Edlong employs a collaborative four-stage success path that simplifies and accelerates the development of your custom flavor technology solutions:
Stage 1
Flavor technology Inquiry
Your Edlong sales representative works with our applications team to provide flavor technology samples and information that fit your project requirements, including flavor technology Profile, Form, Origin, and Label Restrictions.
Stage 2
Applications Lab Assistance
The Edlong applications team works on flavoring your product base with existing flavor technologies within the Edlong product line
Stage 3
Flavor technology Lab Assistance
The Edlong flavor technology creation team produces customized flavor technology solutions when project requirements cannot be met by the existing flavor technology product line
Stage 4
Customer Working Session
In an in-person or online environment, you join a team of Edlong R&D specialists in a rapid iteration working session, producing a flavor technology solution for the project.
The backone of our custom formulation work is Edlong’s industry-leading library of dairy and dairy-free flavor technologies. Our exclusive focus on the taste of dairy has produced a comprehensive collection of dairy flavor technology building blocks that our team of global flavor technology and application experts work with to develop the custom solution that unlocks your product’s true potential.Monica Gotomo Kapoor Edlong New Product Development Manager
Our team of food and beverage sensory scientists, chefs, and applications experts are at the ready to develop and deliver custom flavor technology solutions that meet your specific needs.
Let’s start innovating together.
Authentic flavor technologies for Every Food Application
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These flavor technologies do not contain any known allergens. **Disclaimer- non-allergen statements will vary due to country specific regulations. Check with regulatory for country specific allergen details.
Functional; These flavor technologies offer variations for the onset and building of the flavor technology impact
These flavor technologies contain no dairy, are Kosher Pareve and are suitable for plant-based dairy alternative products
Functional; These flavor technologies are stable under higher temperatures throughout processing
Functional; These flavor technologies provide masking properties to alleviate bitterness and off-notes
Functional; These flavor technologies provide richness and mouthfeel to positively impact taste profiles
These flavor technologies satisfy consumer desire for ‘No Artificial flavor technologies’
These flavor technologies do not contain any added genetically modified sourced ingredient
These flavor technologies are Organic compliant and are suitable for any organic application
Functional; These flavor technologies provide performance improvement for healthy reduction and commodity replacement
Solutions that can help with shortening the onset of sweetness; increasing sweetness peak; reducing sweetness linger; and leveraging inherent sugar.
These flavor technologies contain no animal, dairy, egg or honey products and are suitable for vegan applications