Product of: LSEATEX | Type: Lemon Flavor
Lemon flavor has the following advantages and main applications in food:
Outstanding Advantages of Lemon Flavor
- High Sensory Properties: Lemon flavor recreates the fresh, cool aroma, sour and slightly sweet taste typical of fresh lemon (yellow or green lemon), has the ability to stimulate the taste buds and bring a strong feeling of refreshment.
- Excellent Stability: Lemon flavor has excellent heat resistance and long-lasting fragrance in many processing environments (hot, cold, acidic). This ensures that the scent is not lost during beverage sterilization, baking, or long-term product storage.
- Consistency and Effectiveness: Flavoring helps products maintain consistent flavor quality between production batches. At the same time, using only very small doses (usually 0.1% – 0.3% of total product weight) has achieved high efficiency, optimizing costs.
- Flavor Enhancement: Lemon flavor helps balance the sharp sweetness, fattiness or richness of other ingredients, increasing the feeling of freshness and clean mouth for the product.
- Variety of Forms: Available in both liquid form (soluble in water, popular for drinks) and powder form (often used for snacks, dry spices).
Main Applications in Food
Lemon flavor is widely used in many food industries:
- Beverages: An indispensable ingredient in the production of carbonated soft drinks (Soda, Sprite, 7Up), fruit tea (Lemon Tea), juices, and syrups. Its main role is to create a sour, refreshing, and thirst-quenching taste.
- Desserts & Confectionery: Used to flavor Ice Cream, Gelato, Jelly, Yogurt, Cakes (such as Lemon Drizzle Cake), Hard Candy, Gummies, and Chewing Gum. Lemon flavor helps balance the sweetness and fattiness of these dishes.
- Functional Food/Pharmaceuticals: Added to products such as chewable tablets, syrups, or powdered drinks to mask the unpleasant taste of active ingredients and drugs, making them easier for consumers to use.
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