FLAVOR LABORATORIES, INC.
PALMETTO, FLORIDA

by Flavor Laboratories Inc  We make flavor for almost anything you can think of.  We make flavor for candy, flavor for coffee beans, flavor for vapor and oxygen, flavor for oils and waxes, moonshine, medicine and just anything that needs to still be yummy after it hits a very high heat.  We use only the freshest flavor compounds and actually freeze most of our incoming materials to stop time.  Freezing incoming materials is expensive and often not an option for other flavor manufactures.  Flavor is made with many different botanicals and resins. For that reason Flavor Laboratories also grows many of its own botanicals for use in compounding great flavors.  Floral notes are pivotal to many popular flavors. For example, a good dimensional raspberry flavor would include geranium as a primary note.  A dynamic blueberry note would include rose as its defining note.  A good cola flavor always includes orange blossom (neroli oil), and without the florals you would not enjoy the flavor as much.  You might not even be able to identify it without the floral notes!  Flavor Laboratories grows its own geraniums as well as many other botanicals that go into our formulas.  The company also harvests neroli flowers and creates their own flavor extractions from materials such as tangerines, kefir limes and blood oranges.   When it comes to flavor materials imported by Flavor Laboratories, price is no barrier.  The company often uses expensive materials when they feel they offer a more pleasurable taste that no other flavor house would dream of offering to their formulators.  Meaning, often a flavorist is limited to an affordable menu of materials with which to design their flavor.  This also limits what the flavor “could be.”  Flavor Laboratories is able to stay extremely price competitive in the flavor market while offering a top quality finished product.  For years I was a purchaser of concentrated flavor because I needed an oil based flavor to make lip balm, as chocolate makers also need an oil based flavor so their cocoa solids [fats] do not seize up.  A water based extract would seize the batch and so could not be used.  Back then, only Germany seemed to specialize in a very concentrated flavor for oil based products.  I began reselling flavor in the states and by 2002 I was making flavor and going back to school to be a compound flavorist, where I learned to compound flavor for oil or water based products. flavorists are well known for their self-preservation secrecy, just as a perfumer is private about how they create perfume.  What you may learn is that both occupations are startlingly the same.  Only a few flavors are easy and that would include cinnamon and the mint family such as peppermint.  This is because they come in an essential oil form.  Because there is no "strawberry tree" or "essential oil of strawberry", the world of making flavor becomes truly a vast array of complex compounds and techniques to create a flavor from scratch. Before becoming a flavorist I had 20 years in botany and essential oils. As mentioned earlier, most any good flavor has at least one, if not four, floral notes.  Without the floral notes, you would not enjoy the flavor. For example, orange blossom [neroli] is a pivotal component to Cola and the spice coriander as well.  Since the Cola formula has been on the Internet a very long time, it does no harm to mention it. But if one were to remove the orange blossom note and coriander notes from Cola, one would not recognize it as being enjoyable.  While on the Cola subject, Cola is largely comprised of lime.  This is usually a surprise to even the most serious Cola consumers because it is colored a deep caramel color.  The caramel color may be to conceal the fact it is lime. However, this explains why cola can be a great utilitarian product - beyond a soft drink it can be a wonderful meat marinade and clean your car battery as well, because the acid in the lime is the active agent for both. Photos of Deborah Dolen Senior Flavorist in Grasse France for continuing education November 2015.  Flavor Laboratories, Inc creates flavor formulas and ships over 60% of its products to other countries.  Primary countries are France, Dubai, United Kingdom, Singapore and South Korea to name a few.   Flavor Laboratories, Inc. Flavor Laboratories, Inc.  7322 Manatee Avenue W #256, Bradenton, FL 34209 Flavor Laboratories, Inc.