Natural Extracts Contain: Natural Ethyl Alcohol and Natural Flavors

Caramel Flavor Extract, Natural is a concentrated flavoring ingredient designed to provide an authentic caramel taste to culinary creations. This extract contains natural caramel flavoring compounds in a water and alcohol base, ensuring consistent flavor delivery across various recipes. The concentrated formula allows for precise flavor control while maintaining the sweet, buttery notes typical of traditional caramel.

Applications:

This extract blends effortlessly into baking applications such as cakes, cookies, muffins, and pastries. It is effective in beverage preparation for coffee drinks, smoothies, and specialty cocktails. The extract also excels in sauce preparation, ice cream bases, and confectionery items. Professional kitchens use this ingredient for consistent flavor profiling in large-batch productions, while home cooks appreciate its easy incorporation into standard recipes.

Benefits:

The natural formulation offers authentic caramel characteristics without any artificial additives or synthetic compounds. Its concentrated nature ensures economical usage, with small amounts delivering significant flavor impact. The liquid format allows for even distribution throughout mixtures, avoiding flavor inconsistencies common with powder alternatives. Bulk packaging provides cost efficiency for frequent users while maintaining product stability over time.

Versatility:

This extract is suitable for both sweet and savory applications, enhancing chocolate desserts, vanilla-based dishes, and fruit combinations. It adds depth to marinades for meat dishes, enriches barbecue sauces, and creates unique flavor profiles in specialty beverages. The extract is effective in both hot and cold preparations, maintaining flavor integrity across temperature changes. Its compatibility with other natural extracts allows for custom flavor blending.

Quality Assurance:

Each batch undergoes rigorous testing to ensure flavor consistency and purity standards. The manufacturing process adheres to established food safety guidelines, ensuring product reliability for both commercial and residential use. Quality control measures include sensory evaluation, chemical analysis, and stability testing to maintain consistent performance throughout the product's shelf life.

Sustainability:

The natural ingredient sourcing supports sustainable flavor production practices. The concentrated formulation reduces packaging needs and transportation impact compared to less concentrated alternatives. The manufacturing process focuses on resource efficiency while maintaining product quality standards, contributing to responsible ingredient production practices within the food flavoring industry.

Flavor Extracts Product Applications: cookies, cream cheese frosting, custard, energy drinks liquid, fruit snacks, fudge, gummy candy, honey, hookah, hot processed soaps, ice cream, jell-o, juice, kombucha, lotions, marshmallow frosting, milk, milkshakes, pie filling, popsicle, room spray, salt scrubs, shampoo, soda, sugar scrubs, shampoo, soda, sugar salt scrubs, syrup, toothpaste, vinegar, vodka, water, yogurt, bath bombs, bath salts, beer, body mist, body spray, brewed coffee, brewed team butter, oil based frosting, cakes, cheesecake, cold process soaps, conditioners. See full product applications guide →

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Usage Levels  - Flavor Extracts: Starting usage is 0.25% up to 4% of the overall recipe

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Caramel Flavor Extract, Natural

Nature's Flavors Natural Caramel Extract features a sweet, sticky caramel taste. This extract works well in ice cream bases, frozen dessert recipes, and clear beverages. The concentrated liquid form allows for easy incorporation into various culinary applications, delivering consistent caramel flavor and aroma to your recipes.

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Natural Extracts Contain: Natural Ethyl Alcohol and Natural Flavors

Caramel Flavor Extract, Natural is a concentrated flavoring ingredient designed to provide an authentic caramel taste to culinary creations. This extract contains natural caramel flavoring compounds in a water and alcohol base, ensuring consistent flavor delivery across various recipes. The concentrated formula allows for precise flavor control while maintaining the sweet, buttery notes typical of traditional caramel.

Applications:

This extract blends effortlessly into baking applications such as cakes, cookies, muffins, and pastries. It is effective in beverage preparation for coffee drinks, smoothies, and specialty cocktails. The extract also excels in sauce preparation, ice cream bases, and confectionery items. Professional kitchens use this ingredient for consistent flavor profiling in large-batch productions, while home cooks appreciate its easy incorporation into standard recipes.

Benefits:

The natural formulation offers authentic caramel characteristics without any artificial additives or synthetic compounds. Its concentrated nature ensures economical usage, with small amounts delivering significant flavor impact. The liquid format allows for even distribution throughout mixtures, avoiding flavor inconsistencies common with powder alternatives. Bulk packaging provides cost efficiency for frequent users while maintaining product stability over time.

Versatility:

This extract is suitable for both sweet and savory applications, enhancing chocolate desserts, vanilla-based dishes, and fruit combinations. It adds depth to marinades for meat dishes, enriches barbecue sauces, and creates unique flavor profiles in specialty beverages. The extract is effective in both hot and cold preparations, maintaining flavor integrity across temperature changes. Its compatibility with other natural extracts allows for custom flavor blending.

Quality Assurance:

Each batch undergoes rigorous testing to ensure flavor consistency and purity standards. The manufacturing process adheres to established food safety guidelines, ensuring product reliability for both commercial and residential use. Quality control measures include sensory evaluation, chemical analysis, and stability testing to maintain consistent performance throughout the product's shelf life.

Sustainability:

The natural ingredient sourcing supports sustainable flavor production practices. The concentrated formulation reduces packaging needs and transportation impact compared to less concentrated alternatives. The manufacturing process focuses on resource efficiency while maintaining product quality standards, contributing to responsible ingredient production practices within the food flavoring industry.

Flavor Extracts Product Applications: cookies, cream cheese frosting, custard, energy drinks liquid, fruit snacks, fudge, gummy candy, honey, hookah, hot processed soaps, ice cream, jell-o, juice, kombucha, lotions, marshmallow frosting, milk, milkshakes, pie filling, popsicle, room spray, salt scrubs, shampoo, soda, sugar scrubs, shampoo, soda, sugar salt scrubs, syrup, toothpaste, vinegar, vodka, water, yogurt, bath bombs, bath salts, beer, body mist, body spray, brewed coffee, brewed team butter, oil based frosting, cakes, cheesecake, cold process soaps, conditioners. See full product applications guide →

Usage Levels  - Flavor Extracts: Starting usage is 0.25% up to 4% of the overall recipe

Learn more with our resource guides →

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The Flavor Guy: Best Uses for Flavor Extracts

The Flavor Guy, goes through a quick rundown of how extracts are made, their best uses and applications, and the percentages by volume that you should be using for your flavoring needs.

FAQs

A flavor extract is a concentrated liquid that captures the essence of natural ingredients like vanilla beans, almonds, or citrus fruits. Made by extracting flavors through organic alcohol or glycerin-based solutions, these potent extracts deliver authentic taste to your recipes with just a few drops. Nature’s Flavors natural and organic flavor extracts elevate your creations without any artificial ingredients or synthetic additives.

While often used interchangeably, these products have distinct characteristics:

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

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

Artificial extracts are synthesized in laboratories using chemical compounds to mimic natural flavors. While less expensive, they lack the complexity and depth of natural ingredients and may contain synthetic additives.

Natural extracts are derived from natural ingredients. Nature’s Flavors’ natural extracts contain complex flavor compounds that create depth and nuance in your recipes, delivering authentic taste with the integrity your customers deserve.

Which is better? Nature's Flavors' natural extracts deliver superior flavor, clean ingredients, and no artificial chemicals. For businesses serving health-conscious consumers, natural extracts aren't just better, they're essential. Natural extracts offer ingredients customers feel good about, a powerful selling point for any product line.

Proper storage preserves your natural extracts' potency and extends their lifespan:

Store in a cool, dark place away from heat sources and direct sunlight. A pantry or cupboard away from your stove is ideal since heat and light degrade delicate flavors over time.

Keep bottles tightly sealed between uses to prevent alcohol evaporation and maintain concentration.

Avoid temperature fluctuations, so DO NOT refrigerate extracts; condensation can introduce moisture and dilute the product.

Use clean utensils when measuring to prevent contamination.

Maintain original packaging when possible, as dark glass bottles protect against light exposure better than clear containers.

Our made-to-order natural and organic extracts are best used within three years from purchase for optimal flavor potency, though the alcohol acts as a natural preservative that prevents true spoilage.

Start with about 0.25% to 4% by weight of the overall recipe, and build gradually.  Finding the perfect amount of a natural flavor extract for your recipe is an art form and requires practice! Natural extracts are highly concentrated, so start with less than you think you need and add more if desired. Natural extracts develop and bloom in your recipes, so what seems subtle during mixing often intensifies beautifully in the finished product. This measured approach creates balanced, crave-worthy flavors that keep customers coming back for more

Our natural and organic extracts 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-extracted. The art of using natural flavor extracts lies in restraint. 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

Our natural flavor extracts are remarkably versatile beyond basic baking:

Baking: Add to cake batters, cookie dough, frostings, and pastry creams. Start with recipe recommendations (typically ½-2 teaspoons) and adjust to taste. Natural extracts provide richer flavor than artificial alternatives, so you may need less than conventional recipes suggest.

Beverages: Enhance coffee, hot chocolate, smoothies, cocktails, and homemade sodas with 2-3 drops per serving for clean, authentic flavor.

No-bake desserts: Stir into whipped cream, yogurt, puddings, and ice cream bases for instant flavor transformation without artificial aftertaste.

Breakfast foods: Elevate pancakes, waffles, french toast, and oatmeal with a splash during preparation.

Savory applications: Some extracts (like almond or coconut) complement marinades, sauces, and glazes in unexpected ways.

Food and beverage manufacturers, caterers, restaurants, bakers, brewers, and more will love using our natural flavorings and extracts to enhance the flavor profile of their desserts, culinary creations, alcoholic beverages, or products.

What Sets our Natural and Organic Flavor Extracts Apart?

What Sets our Natural and Organic Flavor Extracts 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.
Small batch production for maximum freshness
Sourced from nature’s finest growing regions
No artificial additives
Gluten-free, kosher, vegan, and non-GMO

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