Natural Concentrates Contain: Water, Gum Acacia, Natural Flavors, and Citric Acid

Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate, Natural is a versatile and high-quality flavoring solution designed to bring a perfect balance of sweetness and tanginess to a wide range of culinary creations. This natural concentrate is crafted from premium ingredients, ensuring a rich and authentic taste that enhances the flavor profile of any dish or beverage. Ideal for both professional chefs and home cooks, this concentrate is perfect for adding a unique twist to your recipes. The Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is made from natural sources, providing a healthier alternative to artificial flavorings. Its concentrated form means that a little goes a long way, making it a cost-effective choice for bulk use in commercial kitchens, food manufacturing, and large-scale catering operations.

Applications: The Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is used by mixing it into sauces, marinades, dressings, beverages, and desserts to impart a balanced sweet and tangy flavor. It can be easily incorporated into both hot and cold recipes, making it a versatile addition to any kitchen.

Ingredients: The Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is composed of natural ingredients, including fruit extracts, citric acid, and natural sweeteners. These components work together to create a harmonious blend of flavors that mimic the classic sweet and sour taste found in many traditional dishes. The use of natural ingredients ensures that the concentrate is free from artificial additives, preservatives, and colors, making it a healthier choice for consumers who are conscious about what they eat.

Benefit: One of the primary benefits of using the Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is its ability to enhance the taste of a wide variety of dishes without overpowering the original flavors. Its concentrated nature allows for precise control over the intensity of the flavor, enabling chefs to tailor the taste to suit their specific needs. Additionally, the natural composition of the concentrate means that it is suitable for those following a clean eating lifestyle or those with dietary restrictions. The concentrate is also shelf-stable, making it a convenient option for busy kitchens that require reliable and long-lasting ingredients.

Versatility: The Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is incredibly versatile, making it suitable for use in a diverse range of culinary applications. It can be used to create classic sweet and sour sauces for Asian-inspired dishes, or to add a zesty kick to salad dressings and marinades. The concentrate can also be used in beverage applications, such as cocktails, mocktails, and smoothies, to provide a refreshing and unique flavor profile. In the realm of desserts, the concentrate can be used to enhance the taste of sorbets, ice creams, and baked goods, offering a delightful contrast to sweet ingredients.

Flavor Concentrates Product Applications: Beer (cloudy), brewed coffee, brewed tea (cloudy), butter, oil based frosting, cakes, cheesecake, conditioners, cookies, cream cheese frosting, custard, energy drinks liquid, fruit snacks, fudge, gummy candy, honey, ice cream, gelatin, juice, kombucha, macaroons, marshmallow frosting, milk, milk shakes, pie filling, popsicle, soda (cloudy), syrup, vinegar, vodka, water (cloudy), yogurt. See full product applications guide →

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Usage Levels - Flavor Concentrates: 0.25% to 3% by weight in recipes

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Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate, Natural

Size NF-4863/NAT-2oz

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  • Gluten Free
  • Kosher
  • Non GMO
  • Vegan
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A common flavor combination widely utilized within Chinese cuisine, sweet and sour is a well-known flavor popular with so many. Perfect for creating your own sauces, soups, and more, the list virtually never ends of what can be created with this excellent natural ingredient. Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is vegan, kosher, and gluten-free.

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Natural Concentrates Contain: Water, Gum Acacia, Natural Flavors, and Citric Acid

Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate, Natural is a versatile and high-quality flavoring solution designed to bring a perfect balance of sweetness and tanginess to a wide range of culinary creations. This natural concentrate is crafted from premium ingredients, ensuring a rich and authentic taste that enhances the flavor profile of any dish or beverage. Ideal for both professional chefs and home cooks, this concentrate is perfect for adding a unique twist to your recipes. The Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is made from natural sources, providing a healthier alternative to artificial flavorings. Its concentrated form means that a little goes a long way, making it a cost-effective choice for bulk use in commercial kitchens, food manufacturing, and large-scale catering operations.

Applications: The Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is used by mixing it into sauces, marinades, dressings, beverages, and desserts to impart a balanced sweet and tangy flavor. It can be easily incorporated into both hot and cold recipes, making it a versatile addition to any kitchen.

Ingredients: The Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is composed of natural ingredients, including fruit extracts, citric acid, and natural sweeteners. These components work together to create a harmonious blend of flavors that mimic the classic sweet and sour taste found in many traditional dishes. The use of natural ingredients ensures that the concentrate is free from artificial additives, preservatives, and colors, making it a healthier choice for consumers who are conscious about what they eat.

Benefit: One of the primary benefits of using the Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is its ability to enhance the taste of a wide variety of dishes without overpowering the original flavors. Its concentrated nature allows for precise control over the intensity of the flavor, enabling chefs to tailor the taste to suit their specific needs. Additionally, the natural composition of the concentrate means that it is suitable for those following a clean eating lifestyle or those with dietary restrictions. The concentrate is also shelf-stable, making it a convenient option for busy kitchens that require reliable and long-lasting ingredients.

Versatility: The Sweet and Sour Flavor Concentrate is incredibly versatile, making it suitable for use in a diverse range of culinary applications. It can be used to create classic sweet and sour sauces for Asian-inspired dishes, or to add a zesty kick to salad dressings and marinades. The concentrate can also be used in beverage applications, such as cocktails, mocktails, and smoothies, to provide a refreshing and unique flavor profile. In the realm of desserts, the concentrate can be used to enhance the taste of sorbets, ice creams, and baked goods, offering a delightful contrast to sweet ingredients.

Flavor Concentrates Product Applications: Beer (cloudy), brewed coffee, brewed tea (cloudy), butter, oil based frosting, cakes, cheesecake, conditioners, cookies, cream cheese frosting, custard, energy drinks liquid, fruit snacks, fudge, gummy candy, honey, ice cream, gelatin, juice, kombucha, macaroons, marshmallow frosting, milk, milk shakes, pie filling, popsicle, soda (cloudy), syrup, vinegar, vodka, water (cloudy), yogurt. See full product applications guide →

Usage Levels - Flavor Concentrates: 0.25% to 3% by weight in recipes

Learn more with our resource guides →

Why Customers Love Flavor Concentrates by Nature's Flavors

★★★★★ Great Flavor Concentrates for Homemade Syrups!

These work great to flavor homemade syrups with. We use these in our little mobile coffee trailer as we make all in house syrups and these are perfect. They are very concentrated so a little bit goes a long way.

Viola B.
★★★★★ Wonderful Product

This strawberry flavor concentrate has an amazing flavor and aroma...it's great for adding in cakes, muffins and more. I also love adding to my smoothies and drinks for an amazing strawberry "jamlike" flavor. It doesn't take much to achieve desired flavor. I highly recommend this product.

Julie B.
★★★★★ Used this to enhance the flavor of my blueberry bagels!

This product is amazing. Just added .25% to my recipe (of the total volume). Great berry flavor, aroma! Made my blueberry bagels taste and smell more like blueberry muffins! Excellent product!

Nicholas P.
★★★★★ Unbelievable organic concentrates.

All of the organic concentrates are unbelievable. Every side by side comparison to our products ours come out on top. It's all in using the best flavorings.

Rich C.
★★★★★ Great concentrated flavor

Much better than peach extract or syrup I’ve been using. Allowed me to reduce the sugar/sweetener in my tea recipe while preserving flavor. Very intense peach flavor.

Larry B.

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Our natural and organic flavors are used in products found at every major retailer, from Target and Amazon to Sprouts and Whole Foods. Our flavors and fragrances appear in products nationwide and internationally across food and beverage manufacturing, health and wellness products, personal care, cosmetics, artisanal creations, and beyond.

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Your Guide to Using Flavor Concentrates

Learn how flavor concentrates work and when to use them for the best results. If you're only purchasing one type of product from Nature’s Flavors, this versatile, natural flavor concentrate is the one to get.

FAQs

Nature’s Flavors' flavor concentrates are our most widely-used flavors and are best used in any water-based application.

While often used interchangeably, these products have distinct characteristics:

Concentrates are highly potent versions of flavorings, requiring less product per use. They are often water-soluble and perfect for beverages and candies.

Extracts are made by infusing natural ingredients in alcohol, creating authentic flavor profiles. They're typically alcohol-based and offer the most natural taste.

Our high-quality concentrated flavorings boost the flavor of any culinary creation you are making. Simply add a few drops of our natural flavor concentrates to your creamy homemade ice cream to create a truly mouth-watering treat. You could also add a few drops to your culinary cuisine or to any beverage to enhance its flavor!

Use our concentrated flavorings to make delicious desserts, like cookies, cake, pie, and frostings. The savory flavor concentrates could be used to cook your favorite meal, side dish, or sauce.

Flavor concentrates work well in water-based applications like:

  • • Syrups
  • • Ice Cream
  • • Baked Goods
  • • Yogurt
  • • Beverages

If you're only purchasing one type of product from Nature’s Flavors, this versatile, natural flavor concentrate is the one to get.

For our natural flavor concentrates, we recommend that our customers follow these guidelines to get the most from our premium line of concentrated flavors. Our recommended starting usage amount for flavor concentrates is about 0.25% to 3% by weight in recipes. These concentrated flavorings are affected by fat, sugar, and bulking agent content, so a little experimentation may be needed to get the perfect flavor for your taste!

Our natural and organic concentrates are potent. If you notice a minty, medicinal taste on your palate, or find yourself still tasting the flavor an hour after enjoying your creation, you've crossed the line from perfectly flavored to over-flavored. You want to tease the taste buds, not overwhelm them. 

Signs you've over-flavored:

  • • Persistent flavor that lingers long after eating
  • • Overpowering taste that masks other ingredients
  • • Minty or cooling sensation on the palate

Both work well for beverages, but the best choice depends on your specific needs. Concentrates are usually water-based. They can be more cost-effective for large-scale production, and may include functional ingredients like citric acid or gum acacia to support stability and mouthfeel—making them better suited for bold, intense flavors.

Extracts, containing alcohol and natural flavors, are best used for products containing minimal ingredients. They blend easily, and are ideal for subtle, nuanced flavoring for clean-label products. 

Extracts and concentrates have similar usage rates (extracts 0.25–4%, concentrates 0.25–3%), so start low and adjust to taste. Choose based on your desired flavor intensity, formulation base, and ingredient preferences.

What Sets our Natural and Organic Flavor Concentrates Apart?

What Sets our Natural and Organic Flavor Concentrates Apart?

Nature's Flavors has been developing natural and organic flavors for over 45 years, offering 300+ flavors, using only the finest sustainably sourced ingredients.

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We carry 400+ natural and organic flavors, from essentials like vanilla, strawberry, peach, and blueberry to distinct options ranging from acai to zabaglione. Explore our extensive flavor library for new product innovations.