These natural flavours can get quite expensive, much more than their artificial counterparts so you don’t have to break the bank as a small food business or sacrifice your beliefs and quality.
Start with Concentrated Flavours
Pay attention to natural flavourings (large and highly concentrated flavours, other companies sell diluted flavours). Even though the price is heavy up front, you will use very little per batch so these are more of an investment that benefits long term. Because just a dab will do if it is formulated in strength. For Natural Flavourings, visit //foodieflavours.com/collections/natural-flavourings
Buy in Appropriate Quantities
Do not buy in-bulk more than you need. Natural does expire and you waste money when that happens. Figure out how much you will need before ordering so that your full portion lasts for six months.
Blend Strategically
Use natural flavouring with whole ingredients. Examples include natural vanilla extract (with real vanilla seeds) and fruit flavourings which can be uplifted with small amount of real fruit puree. This deepens flavour and reduces the amount of precious extract you need to use.
Build Supplier Relationships
Work directly with natural flavour vendors, bypassing multiple distributors. Some of them provide bulk rates for regular customers, tech help and demo samples. Longer-term customer development would likely be a convenience for volume pricing deals – further in advance, but even on lower scales orders.
Simplify Your Range
Instead of 12 different flavours, just do four or five really well. Doing so lowers your ingredient inventory costs, reduces waste and enables you to get better pricing on the flavours which make up most of your volume.
Test Thoroughly Before Scaling
As with anything, when adding natural flavourings; always test in small batches first. They work differently in different dishes and it’s a very expensive mistake to make if you find out that you don’t like them after purchasing in bulk.