Natural Unsweetened & Unsalted Background Flavorings
What’s the best way to have what you want?
Take Control–> Custom-Flavor It Yourself
with Flavor Essence
The people who enjoy Flavor Essence the most (and understand us the best) are folks that have gourmet, “foodie” tendencies, are creative people, and/or want more control over what’s in their diet, and ultimately want control over the taste of their foods and beverages. Whether you are a novice, want to expend almost no effort, or if you are geared toward from-scratch recipes as a chef/baker/home-cook, these are simple clean tools for customizing and tweaking things to really match your own sense of good taste. Flavor Essence, Inc. (Hampton, New Hampshire) is known as a designer and bottler of gourmet-level natural flavorings that add clean tasting background flavor to your favorite food & beverages –without any odd after-taste; without any kind of preservatives, colorings, sugars, sodium, fats or carbs. Make your own versions of water, bubbly waters, coffee, teas, and bar drinks! Or, with just a few drops of these, you can easily modify and improve upon the big name brand beverages and foods that everyone buys in the stores. And in baking, go to the next level, way beyond the mere use of vanilla and almond extracts. Gain maximize control and daily variety with these gourmet-level flavorings. You can create and add finesse to the flavor of your recipes, drinks and food.
Flavor Essence Gift Pack "Gift of Good Taste" -Any Combination [Case of 5 bottles, 2 Ounces Each]
Create your own Gift Selection of any 5 bottles of Flavor Essence
(Five 2 Ounce bottles. Each bottle will flavor 30+ 12 oz beverages or 12 baking batches)
Here's something different for gourmet-types, foodees and health-conscious folks...
HOW TO PLACE THE GIFT ORDER:
- These are wrapped box with heavy Mauve-colored paper, and gift-tagged on the outside and inside with "A Gift of Good Taste".
- Just type in your gift message that you want included, and we will hand-write it in green ink for you on a tasteful mini-card to your friends and relatives.
- Note: If you do not include a gift message, we will ship it more simply in a white box gift-tagged on the top side "A Gift of Good Taste".
- Choose any combination of flavors that you want.
- We will send these anywhere in the U.S. and U.S. Military Bases (Free Shipping)
What is Flavor Essence?
Flavor Essence flavorings are gourmet quality, designer-level flavors--with no sweeteners, no additives, no allergens; these are vegan friendly, diabetic friendly, athlete friendly.
In addition to being completely unsweetened, there are also no added colors or preservatives, no calories, carbs, fat, sodium or gluten. And believe it or not these still smell and taste great. They are concentrated to act as "Background Flavors". Unlike extracts and syrups that can quickly overpower your recipe, Flavor Essence is gourmet-quality flavor that is styled to play a well-behaved supportive role, that complements and adds complex taste -- that doesn't dominate over the primary flavors of your favorite beverages and food recipes.
These are fun & tasty background flavorings; but still no nonsense--> "the flavor and just the flavor". You can custom-flavor anything your own way; and once you understand the "personality" of two or more flavors, you will have the empowering experience to start blending a couple of these together to create your own signature blends. And this is why we focus on just a small realistic set of fundamental flavors.
*** In Beverages *** great in coffees, teas, waters, seltzers, protein shakes, smoothies and bar-drinks.
*** In Food Recipes *** great in oatmeals, muffin mixes, cake batters and frostings, bread & cookie doughs, mousses, yogurt, pancake batters, French Toast washes/batters, dressings, sauces (and to flavor maple syrup, honey, agave, simple syrups / from-scratch syrups)
[Beyond letting people easily customize the flavor of water, sparkling water and coffee, these have become the flavoring toolset "behind the scene" for many bakers, bartenders, brewers, distillers and even CBD manufacturers].
Flavor Essence -Ingredients, Nutritionals and Allergen Info:
Ingredients: Water, alcohol, natural flavors
Unlike extracts, Flavor Essence minimizes the alcohol to a very nominal level --of less than 1/30th of a teaspoon per serving. This is equivalent to about 150 cups of coffee with these flavors, to about 1 glass of wine, and less than the naturally occurring amount in naturally squeezed ripe orange juice.
Basic Flavor Essence Nutritionals:
[A Full List is at the very bottom of this page]
0 Sugars
0 Sodium
0 Carbohydrates
0 Fats
@ 1 to 2.5 Calories
Gluten Free
Flavor Essence Allergen Analysis
Wheat (includes Triticum species & Triticale) 0
Egg and Egg Products 0
Milk and Milk Products 0
Soy (flour, oil, proteins, etc) 0
Peanut Products (oil, nut, etc) 0
Sesame and products thereof 0
Fish 0
Crustacean Shell Fish 0
Mollusks (oysters, clams, etc) 0
Celery (root, stalk, leaves, not seeds) 0
Lupines and Products thereof 0
Mustard and Products thereof 0
Yellow #5 0 (no colors added)
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Basic Flavor Essence Directions / Guidelines
Flavor Essence In Beverages:
Use from a couple of drops up 1 to 2 generous squeezes of Flavor Essence and stir into 12 ounce drinks. (Get to know your flavor by starting off with a small amount—then add more to match your own taste pleasures. For Soda Stream or seltzer /sparkling, 2-3 squeezes will improve the flavor of a liter -- adjust to your own taste levels. In vodka, rum, tequila --a lesser amount is used in straight-up drinks on the rocks. Add your favorite sweetener –since sweeteners tend to amplify the flavoring, adjust to your tastes. Also, the underlying sugars in juices will amplify the flavor –so again customize your flavor-levels to your own desired tastes.
Flavor Essence In Food:
Add into almost any baking/cooking project without altering your primary recipes, batters, doughs, mixes, whips, frostings and yogurts. You can even flavor your honey & maple syrup directly.
1 to 2 generous squeezes of Flavor Essence will add delicate but complex background flavor when stirred into oatmeal and other cereals, yogurt. Use approximately 1 teaspoon (3 squeezes) into French Toast/pancake batters, cookie doughs, bread doughs as well as cake batter, muffin mixes, homemade frostings and custards. [1 bottle will flavor about 12 basic batches]
Basic Cooking Guideline: In baking, the cocoon-effect of doughs and batters will serve to protect and permeate the added flavors. But in high heat cooking, like custards and oatmeal always add a bit of background flavor at the end, **after the heat is turned down –not at the beginning**.
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TASTING NOTES FOR THE FLAVORS
Flavor Essence -Banana Foster
Soft, very ripened-banana with complex aroma & taste nuances of buttery brown sugar and a touch of rum/vanilla without any type of sweetener. In this special flavor recipe, we’ve finally pulled together the friendly, sweet, soft, ripe, perfumes and flavors you experience when a banana goes past the "green stage" and its skin peels off so easily and tastes so plump and fruit-laden. (The owner is a banana lover, and this recipe went through the most work, re-work and tweaking until the aromas and taste could only be beaten by aging and peeling a banana).
Flavor Essence -Blueberry
Lively / clean aromas and flavor of true-to-form blueberry -- showing off ripe fresh blueberry flavor only. The berry, in its perfume and flavor, has a dainty but ripened personality. It is our best effort to giving you "the right blueberry flavor", nothing else. Beyond its use in hot/iced coffees & teas, this does very well in smoothies as well as high-end vodka martinis.
Flavor Essence -Black Cherry (Plump-Ripe Style)
After a year of trials, taste testings and revisions, we finally have a true-to-form natural dark cherry that has plump-ripe perfumes and soft/chubby cherry flavors. As one of the most-recently added flavorings, it might have proven to be the toughest of them all "to get it right". The goal was to give you something more real than ever, and to let you forget about syrups and candies. It's about tasting the fruit you see once a year on the tree or in a good jar of preserves!
Flavor Essence -Coconut
Perfumes of fresh-shaved coconut, and ripe-clean tasting, almost “meaty coconut” flavor. As opposed to being sweet, creamy or oily, our style of Coconut focusses on just the simple tropically fresh coconut meat as its primary personality trait, and then a second characteristic that gives you a piece of soft nuttiness in the finish. [To get gourmet level unsweetened Coconut into drinks is otherwise almost impossible and in food/baking this Coconut will prove to be very practical. This Coconut might end up being one of the most versatile of all flavors –you can easily blend this into our other flavors, or “as-is” into a very large range of drinks and enhance your creative baking projects.
Flavor Essence -Peach (Late Harvest)
Sweet ripe perfumes of plump soft peaches. The big attempt here was to capture that juicy style of peach that’s ready to fall off the tree… you know, when if you grab it too hard the sweet juicy peach bruises in your grip! (And no, there are no sweeteners in this one either!) [FYI: the Peach and Strawberry set new records for degree of difficulty to “get it right”]
Flavor Essence -Raspberry (Jam-style)
Ripened raspberry with darker aromas & tastes of warm jam –it has the kind of perfumes and flavor of the berries when they are about to fall from the vine. Compared to the pre-flavored raspberry that you've had before, this does not have that "ribbon candy" or “sweety-pie character” that artificial raspberry flavoring often exhibits.
Flavor Essence -Strawberry (Jam-Style)
Nice bouncy strawberry perfumes with the juicy taste of jammy strawberry. Its “boisterous” personality ought to remind you of real, vine-softened, strawberries that stain your fingers from a local Pick-Your-Own farm (--not the store-bought strawberries that are huge, look nice, but are shelf-ripened and almost tasteless). This tasty Strawberry even has a small hint of some fresh earthiness from the little seeds.
Flavor Essence -Tangerine (Juicy Style)
Tangerine-- This is what an orange tries to do but can't...show off a set of very dainty, sweet & juicy perfumes, and then follow through with its very fresh flavor personality that is not only ripe orange, but also has the appearance of also being juicy and sweet, and even a bit creamy.
[Especially for new-comers to our flavors, even though the aromas and tastes will suggest to you a "sweetness", the Tangerine clocks in with 0 sugars, carbs, fat or sodium. (And nothing like Stevia is ever added into our natural flavor recipe. That or other sweeteners are up to you to add). This is not a "pretty" liquid flavoring --with its slightly pale & opaque color; but in its natural form, the aromas and tastes will show off a a style of fresh juiciness that common orange flavorings tend to oversimplify]
Flavor Essence -Toasted Almonds
Fresh nutty and sweet aromas of almonds --without any sugars, and slow- roasted almond in its soft body of flavor. This flavor reveals some great almond nut-laden layers of taste in the middle ,and a soft lingering finish. What's nice here is that it is a bit more forward than some of the other Flavor Essence flavorings, but it still has a clean daintiness with no odd aftertastes. The flavor is nicely amplified when you add your own sweeteners that you desire.
Flavor Essence -Chocolate (Milk Chocolate Style)
With this newest recipe, we have finally bottled up a really clean classical milk chocolate. Even though it is unsweetened, it has gourmet-quality melted and frothy aromas, plus the right frothy/melty chocolate in the body of the flavor that a lot of people crave but “need to avoid”. And it has no odd after-tastes, just chocolate. We finally “did it”. [This chocolate sets up a very nice contrast to its “big brother” flavor –the Rich Dark Chocolate]
Flavor Essence -Rich Dark Chocolate
Noticeable aromas of a warm deep chocolate bar. Unlike dark cocoa or chocolate, this has the pleasantly deeper darker melted chocolate flavor without any bitterness. (Also for sensitive folks, like the other flavors this contains no sugars & does not have allergens). This dark chocolate plays well when blended with the Toasted Almonds and Banana Foster.
This Rich Dark Chocolate is the perfect background flavoring when you want to add a clean-tasting darker chocolate background dimension to your beverages and your creative food recipes.
Flavor Essence -Caramel Crème Brulee
Melted caramel and sweet cream custard aromas and flavors without any sugars (add your own). This is a dainty but seductively rich set of flavors. It can nicely add complexity and pleasing background flavors to any coffee, oatmeal, chocolate chip recipe, muffin mix (and even exotic adult beverages/ drinks that contain Baileys, Kahlua or amaretto).
The Caramel Crème Brulee natural concentrate is kind of a secret item --because it is not an off-the-shelf flavor that is either simple to mimic or commonly found as an ingredient. Creative people, chefs and bartenders will find and get new pleasures from this “secret ingredient”.
Flavor Essence -French Vanilla Crème
Very clean fresh vanilla with a sweet aroma and soft texture that brings about a creamy custard backdrop onto your palette. This is different than ordinary vanilla because of its dainty perfumes and flavors that will accent your coffees/teas with some finesse. (Another positive side-effect, is that this flavor and all of the others will smooth off the bight or acidity of coffees/teas and alcohol-based drinks. In all applications, this will provide a soft rich background flavor). In cookie mixes, French toast batters, bread doughs and cake mixes, the French Vanilla Creme differs from extracts in that it is a more mellow and integrated component that enriches the primary flavors as a subtle backdrop to your recipe.
Flavor Essence -Custard Crème (Flan – Cannoli Style)
Sweet creamy perfumes, rich-soft flavors of warm Flan and fresh Cannoli filling. It has a complex set of perfumes of freshly beaten brown sugar, vanilla bean, eggs and rich cream. Custard Crème shows off layers of taste that are kind of like that spoonful of cookie dough or cannoli filling that you sniff and steal from the bowl when baking.
This is our first flavor that almost deserves the term "voluptuous". Even while this creamy flavor belongs in the same "family" as a good vanilla, this actually picks up where simple vanilla ends—adding a richness and complexity not tasted before in mere vanilla.
Flavor Essence -Maple (Grade-A Style)
Rich earthy aromas, with very warm-clean maple body of flavor. The overall finish of this Maple is lush, yet elegantly soft. (This recipe is completely without any sweeteners --add your own). And it is a kind of exciting product for you to use, without that cloying artificial candy-ish taste or after-taste that is so disappointing in artificial products.
If you've ever visited a sugar shack in New England while Maple sap is being boiled and evaporated, the aromas/perfume of this Maple will remind you of the heady steam that fills the sugar shack on the 1st evaporation runs. This unique product has a flavor "personality" that deliciously tastes like the Grade-A samplings that visitors get to sip while the first vats of concentrated maple liquid are still warm.
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More descriptions of Flavor Essence are coming: Flavor Essence -Mint, Flavor Essence Cinnamon, Flavor Essence Lemon (Meyer Lemon-Style), Flavor Essence Mango, Flavor Essence Pistachio
More Complete Flavor Essence Nutritional Analysis
Flavor Essence is basically just good flavor with nothing added.
- Worth a minute–> Flavor Pointers – Tips and Tricks
- Are You Looking Around and Exploring? Take a quick look at Our Flavor Taste Notes
- It’s worth a quick read of What our customers are saying and how they use the flavors
A Couple Of Key Things About Flavor Essence:
Who Are Our Customers:
The people who enjoy Flavor Essence the most (and understand us the best) are folks that have gourmet, “foodie” tendencies, are creative people, and/or want more control over what’s in their diet, and and ultimately want control over the taste of their foods and beverages.
Whether you are a novice, want to expend almost no effort, or if you are geared toward from-scratch recipes as a chef/baker/home-cook, these are simple clean tools for customizing and tweaking things to really match your own sense of good taste.
What is Flavor Essence:
Flavor Essence, Inc. (Hampton, New Hampshire) is known as a designer and bottler of gourmet-level natural flavorings that add clean tasting background flavor to your favorite food & beverages –without any odd after-taste; without any kind of preservatives, colorings, sugars, sodium, fats or carbs.
Make your own versions of water, bubbly waters, coffee, teas, and bar drinks! Or, with just a few drops of these, you can easily modify and improve upon the big name brand beverages and foods that everyone buys in the stores. And in baking, go to the next level, way beyond the mere use of vanilla and almond extracts. Gain maximize control and daily variety with these gourmet-level flavorings. You can create and add finesse to the flavor of your recipes, drinks and food,
Plus 2 more clean things we’re up to:
- SECRET SAVORIES: We are now introducing 10 basic but highly useful food flavor seasonings (Secret Savories). Although natural and vegan, these will easily add an incredible “finish” or adjustment to many dishes. They are key building blocks for all cooks and anyone wishing there was a way to tweek the final flavor of any dish.
- ATLANTIS mist room sprays is a new offering; we are introducing several natural air sprays /surface sprays. We’ve always heard that our flavorings smell so good and are so realistic. In fact, as we have designed each of out flavors, one of the most important factors of whether we have accomplished a good flavor is whether it smells right and smells great. So –as a new brand, we’re now bottling a few aromas into ATLANTIS air and surface sprays. They’re small, portable, powerful, clean and kinda yummy.
Our three little collections of products (A), (B), (C) :
Each of 3 groups of small-batch bottlings use natural flavor concentrates and designed as a simply and cleanly as possible. [They never contain additives, enhancers, preservatives, of any kind. All three groups of products are non-GMO, gluten free, and always clock in with zero sugars, sodium, carbohydrates, or proteins].
(A) 30 Natural Background Flavorings -concentrates of fruits, berries, chocolates, cremes & nuts
Use these to customize and add gourmet-level finesse to any beverage, to yogurts, oats, and any baking project. [water, alcohol, concentrated natural flavor. Unsweetened, non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan]. Quicky List: Honeycrisp Apple, Banana Foster, Black Cherry, Blueberry, Peach, Raspberry, Strawberry, Tangerine, Mango, Dragonfruit, Pineapple, Coconut, Ginger, Key Lime, Meyer Lemon, Mint, Maple, Cinnamon, Graham Cracker, Pistachio, Toasted Almonds, Butterscotch, Custard Crème, Caramel Crème Brulee, French Vanilla Crème, Café Latte, Milk Chocolate, Rich Dark Chocolate
(B) 10 Secret Savories (concentrated natural infusions) — last-step natural seasonings. Use these “finish” and improve the flavor of any food
10 Critical Gourmet-Quality Savory Seasonings: Sauteed Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions, Sauteed Garlic, Fresh Tomato, Roasted Vegetables, Baked Chicken, Roasted Beef, Smoked Bacon, Butter Flavor, Grill Flavor
Secret Savories: Use these as seasonings at the end of cooking. 2-5 drops will add true background flavor to dips, hummus, spreadable cheeses, ketchups, mustards, salad dressing, melted butters, steamed vegetables, mashed potatoes, sauces, soups, stews, chilis, pan drippings. AND these will add your own custom-gourmet touch to even store-bought jars and cans of pre-processed foods.
Sold in 5-Packs: Create your own selection in Custom 5-Packs
These are 1-ounce drop-dispensing bottles and each will provide @ 500 drops (normal amount is 2 to 5 drops per single portion of food or 10-12 drops per pot or pan of food.
Refined soybean oil, infused concentrated natural flavor. Unsweetened, unsalted, non-GMO, gluten-free, each is vegan (except the Smoked Bacon)
(C) ATLANTIS mist -natural air & surface spray
Naturally More Pleasant What’s different about this product? Instead of blending in with nasty smells, ATLANTIS air and surface spray will replace bogus smells, gaseous and stale smells and artificial “cover-ups”, with nice natural smelling aromas. Spray toward the ceiling and let the fine mist knock the unwanted odors down to the floor.
Use these in Bathrooms, Kitchens, Cars, Toilets, Sinks, Counters, Stale Rooms, Lockers, Linen, Clothes, Sports Bags, Shoes, Socks, Smoker stink and any other nasties. But, these are not designed as perfumes.
Sold in 5-Packs in any combination that you create French Vanilla, Coconut, Roasted Coffee, Cinnamon-Clove, Peppermint, and seasonal Pumpkin Spice.
[Ingredients: Water, natural aroma & flavor concentrates]
- The first bottlings are just simple clean aromas that everyone loves, but cannot find in a more natural format or duplicate with ease.
Take a moment to study…Help/Pointers & Usage Guidelines. By reading the pointers and usage guidelines, you will understand how the flavors are best used. And with this bit of reading, you can get some very good insights into what you can do and what to expect from the flavors. From there, it truly is up to your own sense of taste and your own creativity. We will be adding a lot more guidance soon about the new Savory-Infusion food concentrates, and the ATLANTIS sprays
Contact Us Directly with any questions, or if you want specific pointers.
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I have been using flavor essence for my homemade seltzer for a little over a year. The infinite flavor combinations will ensure that you never get bored. I use between 20-25 drops per 16 fl. oz. Here are some examples: Chocolate, Coconut, and Almond = Almond Joy. Cinnamon and Apple = a delicious cider. Lime, Pineapple, Mango, and Coconut: prepare to be transported to a tropical paradise. The combinations are LITERALLY ENDLESS. If you want to reduce your refined sugar consumption without giving up the myriad of fun flavors available from other beverages, get these drops and get your creative hydration on! 10/10 would recommend.
I searched and failed to duplicate Dunkin Donuts Blueberry coffee till I found Flavor Essence! Absolutely nailed the flavor. 5-6 drops and it's sooo much like the original. So happy!
I have never had Dragon Fruit so I had no idea what it would taste like. I was thinking it'd be on the tropical fruit spectrum. I added 10-15 drops to a 16 oz bottle of seltzer, plus a little bit of maple syrup. I tasted it along the way and the tiny bit of sugar really did make the taste pop. We can't help the fact that our brains co-mingle images, tastes, scents, words, colors, etc. When I tasted my seltzer, I thought of the Polar seltzer "Dragon Whispers" flavor, except this was even better. But the "image" (taste) was a bright poppy blue/purple, dragons, castles, and yes fruity taste. I recommend just a tiny bit of sugar or maple syrup to make the Flavor Essence flavors really pop. I was rinsing out a maple syrup jug, and not wanting to waste anything, put a little maple water in the seltzer.
I originally sought out unsweetened flavors on Amazon, but was disappointed in my options. So I googled for what I wanted and came upon this site. Excellent options, easy ordering, charming packaging w/a nice personal note. And now that my order has arrived, I can confidently say these were exactly what I hoped for! The flavors are gentler in taste than you might expect, but the instant they're mixed into a liquid, the aroma blossoms and carries the anticipation for flavor right to your taste buds. I am excited to try more in the future! Thank you so much.