Flavor Powders Nature's Flavors has been producing natural flavor powders and organic flavor powders for over 30 years. We speacialise in custom made flavor powders for the food and beverage industry. Natures flavors makes all of its natural flavors powders from scratch from our huge library of inventoried raw materials. There is no middle man. We make custom flavor powders in our factory here in California they way our customers like them.Fresh and on time. Some flavor companies make there flavor powders up in advance and store them on there shelves for many months before they sell them but at natures flavors we believe the customers flavor powder should be made fresh every time and than you can store it if need be and the flavor powder will be much fresher tasting longer.Our library of custom made flavor powders is over eight thousand varieties and growing everyday. If you don't see a flavor 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 powders are made from plant materials and so variations can occur from season to season. Be sure if you are buying a flavor powder 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 powders 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 powder 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 flavor powder. 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 flavor powder 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 flavor powder 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. Natures flavors powdered flavors are formulated to be used in any application where the finished product must be kept dry or were the entire mix is already dry and liquids are to be added later. Powdered flavors are also used in more traditional old world baking. These powdered flavors will bake well and will survive high heat conditions for long periods of time. All natures flavors powdered flavors will dissolve in both cold or hot water. These flavors can also be used in dry drink mixes and they are readily soluble in any instant beverage application. These flavor concentrates are a bit more forgiving, so it's less likely that you will over flavor your recipe on the first try. As with our liquid flavor concentrates, it will require a bit of experimentation and practice to get the results you are looking for. USAGE: Starting usages should be 1% to 5%. Although, it is not uncommon to see usages of less than 1% and even as low as 0.1% could be your finished usage. You will have to experiment with each flavor as they can all vary. Save your notes. Note: These powdered flavors will readily dissolve in warm-hot water.