Taste Improvement

Better Tasting Food, Naturally

What does yeast extract do? Simply put, it makes things taste better.

Some of its components bring savory notes to the product while others round out the original taste of foods. Some are designed to strengthen bold, base flavors while others highlight a subtle top note.

Versatile, natural, and vegan, yeast extract helps improve, intensify, and add depth of flavor to many foods and beverages. Its rich blend of natural components brings out a great variety of notes that strengthen flavors from meaty to spicy and cheesy to smokey, allowing formulators to diversify and improve savory and sweet taste profiles.

Feeding Consumer Demands

Today, consumers’ diets reflect their growing wellness, environmental, and ethical concerns. In 2023, half of consumers surveyed* followed a specific diet or eating pattern, including mindful and clean eating or plant-based diets. More and more, consumers are concerned about the composition and the quality of the products they eat: naturalness, nutrition, and taste are essential criteria in the purchase decision.

As consumers look for healthier, more sustainable—yet flavorful—foods, the food industry must create and reformulate products. Our versatile yeast-based ingredients intensify flavors and deliver the desired taste consumers want in their favorite foods. Today, consumer demand for tasty, global cuisine and spicy foods is on the rise, bringing new opportunities to develop exciting flavors.

*International Food Information Council. 2023 Food & Health Survey. 23 May 2023.

Yeast Extract: For the Power to Make Food Taste Better

With yeast extract, there’s no need to sacrifice taste when creating or reformulating food and beverage products. Its taste properties make it a beneficial, natural culinary ingredient solution with the power to: bring umami, intensify other flavors, mask undesirable notes, and more. A bit of yeast extract can elevate flavor in many foods including favorite traditional dishes from cuisines around the world. In addition to bringing umami notes and modulating flavor, yeast extract can take the bite off bitterness and boost the perception of saltiness.

With our wide range of yeast-based solutions, you can:

Build Base Flavor

Easily strengthen your application’s overall flavor base with a savory backbone for a complex and complete taste.

Intensify Flavor & Umami

Enhance the overall taste of your product with yeast extract, bringing full-flavored notes and a strong, lingering, mouth-watering taste sensation most commonly associated with umami.

Improve Mouthfeel

Balance a pleasant mouthfeel without compromising on taste, especially in reduced-fat products. From better-for-you to indulgent, yeast extracts can improve mouthfeel and texture perception in creamy, fatty, and other full-bodied applications.

Create a Signature Profile

Taste remains the first purchase driver for foods and beverages today. Yeast ingredients help bring unique flavor characteristics, such as meaty, cooked, stewed, caramelized, and cheesy notes to finished products.

New Food Trends, New Taste Challenges

Consumer trends—and their demand for satisfying and intriguing taste experiences—can pose a real challenge when formulating food and beverage applications. Yeast extract offers flavor profiles and properties that help solve these challenges by: improving taste, contributing to specific formulation demands, and masking off-notes from certain sweeteners and proteins.

Yeast extract is commonly used for its wide variety of powerful taste properties in food and beverage applications, including:

Soups & Broths
Sauces & Dressings
Snacks & Seasonings
Fish, Meat & Analogs
Beverages
Plant-based Products
Dairy Products
Sweet Products
Ready Meals

Our Taste Improvement Products

Unleash the full potential of flavor with our wide range of yeast-based solutions designed to improve the taste experience and bring a great variety of notes—from base to top, from savory to sweet, from bold to subtle—for more engaging taste profiles.

Springer^® Reveal – Flavor base and carrier—from subtle to savory, delicate to bold, these yeast-based ingredients are powerful tools to help build a solid flavor and powerful taste.

Springer^® Umami – Powerful umami taste—rich in natural umami, used to increase overall flavor and bring lingering taste sensation in a wide variety of food applications.

Springer^® Cocoon – Craveability and texture perception—balance and intensify taste profiles with improved mouthfeel, taste sensations, and texture perception like creamy, fatty, meaty, etc.

Springer^® Signature – Specific flavor notes—create a signature, authentic taste experience with products featuring specific flavor notes and aromatic profiles like meaty, cooked, caramelized, cheesy, etc.

Global Perspective, Local Expertise

The Biospringer Culinary Center network was established to assist customers with food and beverage recipes using yeast ingredients. Our experienced food technologists and culinary team provide tailored solutions and recommendations, guided by their strong understanding of taste improvement.

In the U.S., our Culinary Center is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where you will find:

Product development support
Combined knowledge of your business and our expertise
Customized solutions and recommendations

Contact a member of our experienced and dedicated sales team to get started on your next consumer-focused product!

Give it a try!

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