Scaling up the delicious authenticity of kitchen recipes
The most enticing food experiences offer unmistakable flavours, tastes and scents with the power to awaken forgotten memories and create new ones.
Consumers crave the authentic, delicious taste experiences of restaurant meals and original recipes made with fresh ingredients. But finding these same experiences in ready meals can be difficult.
Culinary Notes
Givaudan’s Culinary Notes programme offers a deep dive into the fascinating world of cooking and all of its nuances. Through it, we explore cooking cues and techniques from both a culinary and a scientific perspective.
Imagine the rich, buttery aromas that fill the air when braised chicken emerges from the oven, tender and succulent with a hint of onion and garlic in every bite. The gentle bubbling of homemade beef stew, simmering on the stovetop all day until the mouthwatering spices are perfectly blended.
Our chefs, flavourists, application experts and marketing specialists work together to recreate the original taste of local recipes with the right culinary touch and the unique signature that your product deserves and that consumers love.
Explore our video series
In our Culinary Notes video series, we explore how culinary cooking techniques can be translated into flavours for consumer goods. Each episode is shot on location in the home of a Givaudan chef or flavourist. As we travel the globe, we’ll uncover several important aspects of cooking cues and techniques.
For those working in foodservice kitchens, we can also help develop the right culinary signature through easy-to-use solutions. With culinary notes, your kitchens will be able to consistently craft great-tasting, consumer-preferred menu options that deliver on the promise of an eating out experience.
Reaction flavour technology
Our ground-breaking new and sustainable reaction flavour technology can help bridge the gap between the kitchen and an industrial production line. For example, a kitchen saucepan has a much higher surface to volume ratio than a large industrial kettle, allowing the saucepan to create many more flavours to delight the senses.
Our patent-pending technology is based on 10 years of research and development, several decades of reaction flavours heritage, and more than 250 years of flavour science. Each reaction flavour ingredient enables us to accurately deliver the chef's flavour profiles using both less water and less energy.
Unique taste signatures, simply and efficiently
Some cooking techniques are difficult or even impossible to apply in industrial processes, and we can mimic them. Our reaction flavours recreate the same experience you enjoy when using various cooking techniques and the chemical reactions that occur during the cooking process – such as frying, grilling or roasting – to release unique flavours and aromas.
The result: the same delicious taste experience created in your development kitchen, simply and efficiently. So you save time – while creating the unique taste signatures that your products deserve.
Co-create with us and learn more about our new technology
Interested in learning more? Reach out to us so we can help you.