Flavor Extract Nature's Flavors has been producing natural flavor extracts and organic flavor extracts for over 30 years. We specialize in custom made Natural Flavor Extracts for the food and beverage industry. Natures flavors makes all of its natural flavor extracts from scratch from our huge library of inventoried raw materials. There is no middle man. We make custom Natural Flavor Extracts in our factory here in California they way our customers like them.Fresh and on time. Some flavor companies make there Natural Flavor Extract up in advance and store them on there shelves for many months before they sell them but at natures flavors we believe the customers Natural Flavor Extract should be made fresh every time and than you can store it if need be and the flavor will be much fresher tasting longer.Our library of custom made flavors is over eight thousand varieties and growing everyday. If you don't see a Natural Flavor Extract you want on our list than request us to add it and if we can make it we will put it up on the menu. Natural flavor extracts are made from plant materials and so variations can occur from season to season. Be sure if you are buying a Natural Flavor Extract that is to be used year round that you let us know and we can tailor a plan that will insure the least amount of variation from order to order. Natural flavor extracts come in many styles,colors, forms, and concentrations. Be sure to test the flavor out and ask for assistance if you need help to determine a usage for your application. Generally a good rule for starting usage is .25% and up. Remember natural flavor extract has and optimal usage and getting to that point is more art than science. Never over flavor your application and you will sell lots of products and have many years of satisfaction. Here are a few rules for starting to flavor a product. Lets say your trying to flavor some cookies or ice cream with vanilla extract or vanilla flavor. First start with a small amount such as a .25% up to 1% of of your vanilla extract or flavor. Taste the vanilla flavor in the finished dough or ice cream. If the flavor tastes good and goes away after 3 to 5 seconds than its perfect and you dont have to do anything more. (note if this a baked product and it has not been baked yet than you will need to add 10% more to compensate for the loss during baking). When making and freezing ice cream it is also possible the vanilla extract will become diluted due to the whipping of air into the product from the ice cream machine and you may need to add move vanilla extract to the ice cream mix. If at any time you taste a minty taste on your palate or a medicinal taste than you have over flavored your product. Also if you are burping the vanilla flavor an hour or more after you have eaten the finished product than you have probably over flavored the product. The trick to making a product taste good is to only give the customer just enough flavor to tease there taste buds. you never want to satisfy there tastes. They must want the flavor over and over again in this case never getting enough vanilla flavor on there palate. Thats what keeps them coming back for more. PREMIUM EXTRACTS Nature's Flavors' Natural Flavor Extracts are made from the finest ingredients available. Our flavorist shops the world over for the purest and most unique raw materials to bring you new and innovative flavors. These flavors will tantalize your taste buds! What is an Natural Flavor Extract? Nature's Flavors Natural Flavor Extracts are water soluble Flavors made in a base of Natural Ethyl Alcohol. These all natural Flavor Extracts are Food Grade, Kosher, Vegan, Gluten Free, and are best used in clear beverages, dairy products, and applications where you don't want to disturb the clarity/translucency. Nature's Flavors Extracts are of comparable strength with our Flavor Concentrates, and Flavor Oils. Usage for these Flavors should start at under 0.5% and slowly work up to 4% maximum. You will need to experiment to achieve the perfect strength for flavoring you recipe, but once you finish you will be happy with the results. Why use a Flavor Extract instead of a Flavor Concentrate? Natures Flavors natural Flavor Extracts and Natural Flavor Concentrates are very similar. They are both all natural and water soluble Products. The main difference is that Concentrates have a cloudy/opaque look to them where as Flavor Extracts are clear. This property is due to the base that these Flavors are set in. So if your final application needs to be clear then we recommend a Flavor Extract. Flavor Concentrates are also more heat stable than extracts, so for baking you might want to look at concentrates instead of extracts. Furthermore, Flavor Extracts are in an alcohol base and will affect the freezing point of any application that you put them into, concentrates will not.