Creating Delicious Sweet & Sour Flavors
For many in the flavor industry, sweet and sour go hand in hand in the creation of numerous different types of flavors. From traditional sweet and sour sauces as are commonly used in Asian style cuisine to candy flavors that combine sweet and sour notes, there are many different industries and many different types of goods that can utilize sweet and sour flavor notes in their production. Sweet and sour as a flavor combination is perhaps best known in the creation of the popular sauce. However, this is by no means the only application that sweet and sour as a flavor has in the world of cuisine.
Sweet and sour candies are ever popular in the confectionary world. Combinations of sweet and sour exist in everything from hard candies to flavored gums, gummy candies, powdered confectionary products, and much more. One of the unique things about sweet and sour flavored products in the confectionary world is that there are many different ways to bring out these notes in products, largely depending on the type of flavor the flavor designer is attempting to achieve.
Many of the more common types of sweet and sour candies are naturally on the sour side – for example, apple, lemon, and raspberry. Adding sweeter notes to these products is simple, as the flavor ingredients used in their creation naturally tend toward the sour side. However, even sweeter flavors such as cherry can be made sour by adding the appropriate ingredients. Similar notes can be created in other industries, such as in the production of delicious sweet and sour cocktails.
There are many different types of flavor ingredients that are useful in the production of sweet and sour notes in different types of goods. Paying close attention to the natural flavor ingredients used to create these contrasting notes – especially across different types of ethnic cuisines – is a fantastic place to start when seeking inspiration for these products.
Among the more common flavor ingredients used in the production of these goods are Natural Nerol and Natural Pyruvic Acid, both of which bring out sour notes and pair easily with sweeter flavor ingredients, depending on the exact flavor profile that the flavor designer is seeking to achieve. The sweet and sour flavor combination remains one of the most popular across industries, and there are many different ways to bring these notes out in the creation of a vast number of different types of goods.