Author: Paul

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Flavour Manager Regulation

New entries in the Union List, including naringenin

Regulation (EU) 1334/2008 has been updated: two new flavouring substances have been authorised, including naringenin (CAS 480-41-1). This is particularly interesting news for flavourists.

What is naringenin?

Naringenin is a natural flavonoid extracted from grapefruit, used for its taste-modulating properties. It is particularly appreciated for its ability to mask bitterness, making it an ingredient of choice for balancing complex profiles, particularly in functional drinks or plant-based products.

A precise regulation:

It is now authorised in the European Union, but with widely varying dosages depending on the category of foodstuff, ranging from 0 to 1000 mg/kg.

Flavour Manager makes it easy to comply:

✔️ Instant verification by category

✔️ Simulation of regulatory formulations

✔️ Up-to-date database of Regulation 1334/2008 (and other relevant regulation)

✨ Want to try Flavour Manager? Send us a message or book a demo here: https://flavourmanager.com/en/contact

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Events

Happy New Year 2025 ✨

We wish you a happy and successful 2025!

At Your Flavourist, we’re changing quarter- century with sunshine in our hearts, after a very rich 2024:

☀ More and more customers are placing their trust in us, and we’ve been able to open a page on our website dedicated to the testimonials of those who have been kind enough to make their experience with us public.

☀ We’ve been able to work on a wide variety of projects: still a lot of beverage development, development of booze cakes, implementation of sensory languages, support for flavour houses, development of demo flavour prototypes for ingredient suppliers, improvement of dietary supplements for pharmaceutical labs, and so on.

☀ We’ve delivered some great training courses, from Paris to Thailand, and obtained accreditation as trainers.

☀ We have undertaken new work on our lab in Paris to better adapt to our expanding business.

2025 promises to be at least as prolific! Keep following us, we’ll keep you posted 🙃

Quentin & Paul, founders of Your Flavourist

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Corporate

Our clients are amazing! 🤝

For over 5 years, Your Flavourist has supported around ten new clients each year, from short-term projects to regular, long-term collaborations 📈

With this experience and insight, we’re excited to launch a new page on our website, dedicated to client testimonials from those who kindly agreed to share their feedback on working with us. A huge thank you to them for their trust! 🙏

Explore their testimonials here: https://yourflavourist.com/en/our-clients

And while you’re there, check out our newly refreshed brand identity, redesigned to reflect the evolution of Your Flavourist ✨

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Flavour Manager Regulation

Smoke flavourings: the end is near!

It’s official: smoke flavourings will soon no longer be authorised in the EU. Here’s an update with Flavour Manager.

Smoke flavourings have been the subject of specific European regulations. Listed since 2013 in EU regulation 1321/2013, there are 10 of them, numbered SF-001 to SF-010. At the time, the EU provided for a 10-year authorisation, renewable on request, with restrictions on use by type of foodstuff that have not changed since.

At the beginning of 2024, at the end of the initial 10-year period, 8 of the 10 smoke flavourings listed had been the subject of renewal applications from their producers. The remaining two (SF-007 and SF-010) are therefore no longer authorised.

An EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) assessment of the 8 concluded that there was a risk of genotoxicity. On the basis of this assessment, the EU has decided to gradually ban all smoke flavourings authorised to date. The timescales for the ban take account of the diversity of uses of smoke flavourings, to allow enough time for users of these flavourings to change their manufacturing processes.

As a result, finished products containing smoke flavourings may be placed on the market until 1 July 2026. This date is extended to 1 July 2029 for products in food categories 1.7 (Cheese and cheese products), 8 (Meat), 9.2 (Processed fish and fish products, including molluscs and crustaceans) and 9.3 (Fish roe). The limit values for these flavourings in finished products, by food category, continue to apply.

In Flavour Manager, smoke flavourings SF-007 and SF-010 are already listed as prohibited. The bans by type of food will come into force in the database on the dates stipulated in the regulations (2026 and 2029). Finally, we will be contacting our users individually with a list of their flavourings containing smoke flavourings, to help them identify the changes they need to implement.

Don’t hesitate to contact Paul if you have any questions: paul@flavourmanager.com

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Education Training

Flavour training in Bangkok 🥭👨‍🏫

Back from a week of training given by Quentin in Bangkok, with ISIPCA and Foodinnopolis, for the participants of the Flavour Academy.

It was a very rewarding week, focusing on flavour formulation and learning about a wide range of aromatic raw materials.

It was also quite a culinary and olfactory journey, discovering new flavours. Thai gastronomy is undeniably rich and diverse! From the myrcenic notes of the unripe green mango to the aldehydic notes of coriander root, not forgetting the famous sulphur notes of durian, the senses are relentlessly stimulated through the day… and overnight!

Thank you to all the participants for their interest, curiosity and motivation.

And thanks to the organisers, who made this Thai experience unforgettable!

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Our lab Recipes

Our approach to beverage R&D and micro-series

Creating a flavoured tea-hibiscus infusion for the production of a micro-series, as part of a beverage development project.

We develop your beverage recipes!

This is now a major part of our business. From our lab in Paris, which is fully equipped for flavour development as well as f&b product development, we offer services in beverage recipe formulation.

To find out more, take a look at our page dedicated to beverage development.

A little extra: the micro-series

In our approach, the development of a beverage requires several iterations between our client and our taste expert. These iterations form the basis of a collaborative approach, involving the client in the important choices, while benefiting from the advanced expertise of a flavourist and taste expert.

Often in the course of development, we offer to produce a micro-series of a few litres (in production in this video!), packaged in standard or client bottles, allowing the client to try out the prototype with his or her prospects and advisers, and thus gather valuable external feedback before finalising the beverage.

Do you also need beverage development? Get in touch with us!

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Events

We’re 5 years old!

We’re very proud to celebrate our 5th anniversary! 🎂🥂🎈

In this short video, we take a look back at how far we’ve come since the birth of Your Flavourist in 2019. I’s homemade, we hope you like it 🎬

See you soon!

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Events

Happy New Year 2024!

We wish you a sweet and warm 2024!

At the start of this new year, our fingers may be prickling with cold, but our heads are smoking with exciting projects for Your Flavourist 🔥

And 2023 was another very rich and busy year, so a big, warm THANK YOU to our valued clients and partners 🤩

Pell-mell:

  • 🧉 Product developments (many drinks, but not only!) to express our creativity
  • 👨‍🏫 Several tailor-made training courses given to flavour houses and F&B manufacturers to share knowledge and develop skills
  • 👨‍🎓 Numerous hours of teaching to pass on our passion for flavours to students at three leading universities
  • ⌛ Loyal clients who have placed their trust in us and whom we have been working with continuously since the start of the adventure
  • 🤝 Partnerships with a wide range of partners to strengthen our service offering
  • 💻 Individualised monitoring of our Flavour Manager customers to ensure regulatory compliance of flavourings used in finished products
  • 🧪 Work on and acquisition of ever more specialised equipment to improve our flavour and food product development lab in the heart of Paris

At Your Flavourist, we don’t have cold feet when it comes to serving our customers, and we wanted to make that clear at the start of the year 💁‍♂️

See you soon ✨

The Your Flavourist team, Quentin and Paul

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Recipes

Boozy cake tasting

We’ve just organised a tasting session as part of a new project. And not just any tasting session: we tasted pretty much everything there is to taste in the way of soaked baba au rhum-type cakes! 🤩

Guinness, Jack Daniel’s, Tortuga, Wicked Jack’s, Pallini, Schlünder, Sweet and Simply, Up Spirits… The list goes on and on, and it provides us with a great workout for the festive season 🤤

Between us, there’s good and not so good among all these products… 🤫

What about you, do you enjoy and eat soaked cakes?

Find out more about our product development services and don’t hesitate to contact us to talk about your project!

We wish you all a very happy festive season, full of beautiful and tasty moments with your family, friends and loved ones.

See you next year! ✨

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Team building

Spritz workshop & team building at the lab 🍹

A team building event to discover flavourings, it’s possible! 💡

We ran our first SPRITZ WORKSHOP, here are a few pictures 🍹✨

During 3 hours of fun and good humour in the lab, our 6 participants :

👩‍🍳 Created their own aperitif base from scratch, using the many aromatic ingredients available in our lab

🍊 Discovered the benefits and subtleties of using flavourings in drinks

🧪 played chemists with precision balances, beakers, pipettes, etc.

😋 Tested some surprising combinations, sometimes delicious, but also sometimes…… disconcerting!

💬 Discussed their respective perceptions of taste and flavour

🥂 Spent a convivial and joyful time

For us, it was a real pleasure to lead this discovery workshop and pass on our passion for formulating drinks 🤓

In the wake of this success, we want to develop a service for companies that combines team-building and discovery of the world of taste and flavours.

❓ What do you think, dear readers? Do you have any ideas?