Processed foods inevitably undergo changes in their original aroma due to the effects of heating, sterilization, and baking during the manufacturing process. Our application technology addresses this challenge, ensuring that the final product delivers a flavor that consumers perceive as truly ”delicious.”
At our Application Centers—hubs for flavor application development and prototyping—we replicate actual manufacturing processes across a wide range of categories, including beverages, confectionery, frozen desserts, desserts and bakery items. We verify the behavior of aromas under environments tailored to our customers' specific manufacturing conditions, such as retort sterilization and oven baking. By accurately evaluating how flavor intensity, balance, and persistence change, we provide critical feedback for flavor development. Furthermore, we provide customers with prototypes using our flavors on-site, facilitating meetings while tasting the samples. By sharing evaluation results and refinement strategies in real-time—such as ”Let's proceed in this direction” or ”Let's adjust this part a bit more”—we significantly reduce the time required for product optimization. Professional application specialists specializing in multiple fields, such as beverages, confectionery, and frozen desserts, collaborate to provide cross-category product proposals. For example, in products like ice cream sandwiches that combine ”frozen desserts x baked goods,” we integrate expertise from both fields to achieve the optimal flavor design. We maximize product quality by leveraging our extensive prototyping equipment and years of accumulated know-how.