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Our Expertise

Our Expertise
Solving Real-World Flavour Challenges with Proven Solutions

At McCormick, our expertise goes beyond creating great taste. We partner with food manufacturers to solve the complex formulation, processing, and regulatory challenges that stand between product concept and commercial success. 

From ensuring flavour stability to enabling clean label compliance, our team delivers solutions that work — every time, at every scale.

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Heat Stability

What We Solve For You | Explore the flavour challenges we help overcome — and the solutions that set us apart.

Challenge: Flavour degradation during high-heat processing (baking, frying, retorting).

Solution: McCormick has multiple technologies for heat-stable flavours that maintain taste integrity under thermal stress. Ideal for applications requiring high processing temperatures.

Benefits:
- Thermal stability with controlled release
- Clean label–friendly formats
- Reliable performance in extreme heat applications

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Ingredient Replacement & Optimisation

What We Solve For You | Explore the flavour challenges we help overcome — and the solutions that set us apart.

Challenge: Traditional herbs, spices, and oleoresins can introduce particles, inconsistent flavour, high dosage needs, price volatility, and limited supply reliability.

Solution: Our flavour technologies offer a concentrated, particle-free alternative that enhances flavour performance while addressing formulation and sourcing challenges.

Benefits:
- Particle-free format improves texture and appearance
- Lower dosage with high flavour impact
- Free from contaminants (Sudan red, heavy metals, pesticides & ETO)

 

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Flavour Consistency & Process Resilience

What We Solve For You | Explore the flavour challenges we help overcome — and the solutions that set us apart.

Challenge: Flavours can fade, shift, or behave unpredictably during processing or over shelf life, leading to inconsistent quality.

Solution: McCormick’s portfolio delivers consistent, controlled flavour release across varied processing conditions and complex applications.

Benefits:
- Improves batch-to-batch flavour consistency
- Reduces flavour loss and migration
- Water soluble for easy and uniform application

Tailored Solutions for Every Application…

We support food manufacturers across a wide range of categories with customised flavour systems that balance performance, regulatory needs, and consumer appeal.

..and Every Flavour Need

Our flavour collection spans key savoury tonalities that shape taste across Asia Pacific. From bold heat and allium to rich brown notes, smoky profiles, and umami-rich meats and seafood, our flavour groups are designed to bring depth, balance, and regional relevance to every creation.

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Other Tonalities

Our flavour collection also embraces fresh, creamy, earthy, indulgent, and evolving profiles, broadening the palette to inspire creations that resonate across Asia Pacific. Other tonalities include:  

Herbs

Vegetables

Brown

Citrus

Meat

Seafood

Dairy

Sweet

Emerging

smoke free flavours

Smoke-Free Flavours Without Compromise

Smoke-free flavour solutions that deliver bold, authentic smoky taste — without the regulatory or labelling challenges of traditional smoke. Ideal for clean label, savoury applications.

Unlock Clean Smoky Taste
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Let’s create great flavours.

Whether you’re working behind the bench or improving your product and menu innovation planning, trust us to help create your flavour identity.

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