Your product development destination.

Each year, US consumers spend over $1.7 trillion dollars on food and beverage. That’s Trillion — with a “T.”
What’s more, over 20,000 new food and beverage products are introduced into the US market every 12 months.
And yet… about 90% of them, each year, fail.
At Sensapure Flavors, we want to help you be the 10%.

What We Do

Turnkey Product Development • Custom Flavor • Creation Beverage Formulation

Core Areas of Expertise

Functional Beverages
Commercialization
Carbonated Beverages
Sweetener Solutions
Taste Solutions
Sports Nutrition

It only takes 5 steps to develop your
world-class product.
We can show you how.

The team at Sensapure has been dreaming up, formulating, flavoring, testing, and helping to manufacture new and innovative products (that have gone on to be category leaders) for almost 20 years.

The Five Product Development Stages

The team at Sensapure has been dreaming up, formulating, flavoring, testing, and helping to manufacture new and innovative products (that have gone on to be category leaders) for almost 20 years.

Our process is proven, efficient, scalable, and ready to work on your next innovation.

Most new product development efforts will pass through the following 5 stages.

Dream, Formulate, Taste, Evaluate, Launch

1. Dream

Your best-selling products may be ready for a line extension of new flavors; or perhaps a pivot into a promising new delivery system.

Share your dream with us.

Your best-selling products may be ready for a line extension of new flavors; or perhaps a pivot into a promising new delivery system. Maybe you’ve got an idea that has been kicking around for years, and the time is right… whatever stage your dream is at, Sensapure can give shape and substance to your big idea, bringing it into the world. A dream well shared is a beautiful thing. With an agreement that would include the scope of the project, timelines, and cost estimates, we are ready to make your dream a reality. Share your dream with us.

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Target Audience Personas

A detailed description of who will love this product is the best place to start. Knowing what your target audience values and what problems they are trying to solve will help you make the right decisions along the product development journey.

Functional Profile

Creating the right mix of functional benefits is key. Delivering an “on-brand,” functional food or beverage product requires coordination of all the moving parts. Sensapure has been there and done that.

Active Ingredient Mix

Choosing the best combination of active ingredients to deliver on your label claims or product story comes next. A mix of innovation and proven efficacy is always a good call.

Customer Experience

Deciding what kind of experience your product will deliver is key. It impacts much more than flavor. Understanding what your customer expects and will experience with your product will influence everything from flavor systems to packaging.

Competitive Set

Knowing as much as possible about your competitors will sharpen your product design. Let us assist with SWOT analyses, positioning grids, comparison studies. We can help.

Feasibility

Some great ideas are harder to launch than others. Sensapure can assist with reviewing market trends, growth projections, price and margin forecasts can help determine if your product will fly.

2. Formulate

Before we work on flavor profiles, we need to nail the base.

Formulate for success.

What does this dreamy beverage have in it? Not all proteins are the same. And there are millions of combinations of vitamins, amino acids, and minerals. You have a vision, let’s make it real.
With your Partnering Manager and Product Development Teams assigned, we’ll start creating and evaluating possible base formulations.

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Creating an effective, safe, and scalable formula is critical for beverages and functional food products.

Knowing how your various active ingredients will interact with each other, the manufacturing process is key. Creating a product base that delivers on ingredient and label claims takes work.

Decide On Label Claims
Ensure Beverage Stability
Select / Quality All Active Ingredient Suppliers
Determine Optimal Ingredient Levels
Understand Manufacturing Process

3. Taste

Taste matters. In a recent survey by the International Food Information Council Foundation, 88% of respondents stated taste as their primary reason for buying a product.

Tasty!

With the possible exception of Tequila, the only food and beverage products we buy — and keep buying again and again — are those that taste good. Or at least taste better than any of the alternatives. Taste matters. In fact, every survey that the International Food Information Council Foundation has carried out to date has confirmed this, and in the most recent survey, 88% of those surveyed stated taste as their primary reason for buying a product.

We understand that consumers also want all sorts of other attributes in their food and beverages. And some of those “functional foods” or “added ingredients” don’t taste all that great. Sensapure’s extensive experience in flavoring some of the most hard-to-flavor active ingredients mixes really shines here.

Need a non-caloric, natural sweetener to work with plant-based proteins and organic flavors? No problem.

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Sweetening

Some best-selling products use Sucralose, others use a dash of cane sugar, and some go full non-caloric, all-natural. There is no one right answer. But if you really know your customer, you will also know your sweetening options

Acid Level & Mouthfeel

Taste is so much more than just a “flavor.” Building the taste experience incorporates flavor with texture, temperature, sweet and sour notes, etc

Active Ingredient Mix

Sure, you could make it a Strawberries and Cream… or… you could go with, “Key Lime Habanero. Life is short, some products should walk on the wild side.

Customer Experience

From all natural colors to shockingly vibrant hues… what does your coloring system say about your product?

4. Evaluate

Using established sensory evaluation tools such as concentration and identification tests, Sensapure will evaluate your product to its true potential.

Testing, testing, testing.

While folks building houses like to brag that they “Measure twice, and cut once,” they’ve got nothing on Sensapure Flavors. We know that consistent and thorough testing and measurement at each step of the process are needed to assure a consistently amazing finished product that passes all the tests. From sensory evaluations along the way, through the claim and label verification, to stability and shelf life testing — We’ve got this covered.

This is where our flavor and product development teams scale up your formulation for a production-ready run.

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Fact Panels

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Certificate of Analysis

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Product shelf life

All base UI elements are made using Nested Symbols and shared styles that are logically connected with one another.

State-of-the-art sensory lab

All base UI elements are made using Nested Symbols and shared styles that are logically connected with one another.

Safety testing partners

All base UI elements are made using Nested Symbols and shared styles that are logically connected with one another.

SQF certified facility

All base UI elements are made using Nested Symbols and shared styles that are logically connected with one another.

5. Launch

This is where our flavor and product development teams scale up your formulation for a production-ready run.

3, 2, 1 Launch!

Everyone loves the origin stories of food and beverage innovators coming up with new products in their homes… but building a few dozen samples in your KitchenAid, isn’t the same as creating a scalable production line. And then there is packaging, quality control, and distribution. The Sensapure team has been there and done that.

Whether you want us to handle the sourcing of the ingredients and pre-package the beverage into kits, or simply hand you the build of materials, your dream is ready to launch.

There’s nothing like seeing a product you created sitting on the shelves in your local market. And if you’re dream is a huge hit, Sensapure is ready to help you get the next one ready to go. With help on your next line extension, or finding new contract manufacturers to keep up with your growth, Sensapure is your destination for product development.

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90% of US products fail after 1 year*. We want to help you be in the 10%.

-FoodInc

Our Facility

Product Development Center including:

• Product Development Lab
• Flavor Innovation Lab
• Quality Control Lab
• Space + Training Room
• GCFID Analytical Lab
• Sensory Lab
• Apps Lab

18,000 SqFt facility including

• Flavor Encapsulation / 5 Spray Drying Towers
• Liquid Flavor Production
• Carbonation / Nitrogen / Still Beverage Processing
• Aseptic / UHT Beverage Processing
• Flavor Dry Blending
• Beverage Ingredient Kitting
• Flavor Compounding
• Washed Extracts
• Fluid Bed Agglomeration
• Extracts and Emulsions

20,000 SqFt Warehouse / Shipping Receiving Facility

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