Inside our R&D process, from the first conversation to commercial scale-up.
No two manufacturers use a spice extract in quite the same way. A beverage maker may need an oleoresin that dissolves in water; a snack producer may want the heat of chilli without its red colour; a flavour house may need a precise level of an active compound. That is where custom development begins.
It starts with a conversation about what the ingredient must do in the customer's product: its flavour, strength, colour, solubility and format.
Next, our R&D team takes the brief to our pilot oleoresin plant. Working with small quantities of raw material, the team runs controlled extraction trials and adjusts the process, without interrupting full-scale production.
Every trial goes to our laboratory, where it is measured against the brief. When the result is right, we prepare a sample for the customer to test in their own application. Feedback leads to refinement, and only after approval does the product move into commercial production, made the same way every time.
This is how we developed our colour-reduced oleoresins, and how we approach every new brief: carefully, measurably and together with our customer.
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