Explore our Tastesense taste modulation portfolio
- Sweet
- Salt
- Mouthfeel
- Masking
Tastesense Sweet and Tastesense Advanced
The Tastesense range of taste solutions goes beyond sugar reduction and into sweetness satisfaction. Use Tastesense to develop nutritionally optimised products and drive sustainable nutrition, addressing sweetness optimisation challenges in categories such as beverage, dairy, plant-based, bakery and sauces.
Use Tastesense Sweet to:
- Deliver a balanced, clean taste experience from start to finish
- Improve nutrition by reducing sugar up to 30% without compromising taste
- Improve mouthfeel and flavour impact in products with low/no added sugar
- Reduce off-notes of non-nutritive sweeteners such as stevia and sucralose
- Reduce scope 3 footprint by 30% carbon emissions and 20% water usage
Use Tastesense Advanced to:
- Deliver clean intense upfront sweetness and holistically elevate overall sweet taste
- Improve nutrition by reducing sugar more than 50% without compromising taste
- Bring full-bodied mouthfeel and flavour impact to products with low/no added sugar
- Reduce off-notes compared to addition of single ingredient non-nutritive sweeteners, such as stevia and sucralose
- Reduce scope 3 footprint by 30% carbon emissions and 45% water usage
Tastesense Salt
By leveraging our fermentation, extraction and cooking expertise, Kerry has developed a toolbox of solutions that deliver on salt and umami taste while reducing the amount of sodium in a product. Tastesense Salt solutions improve taste perception while rebalancing the overall eating experience. Solutions can be applied to prepared meals, soups, sauces, snack seasonings, bakery and savoury spreads. Tastesense Salt is flexible across applications including vegetarian, white meat and tomato-based products.
Use Tastesense Salt to:
- Reduce salt up to 60% (depending on application)
- Deliver salty and umami taste perception
- Deliver a balanced taste with a clean after-taste
- Deliver a natural, clean taste experience that is not based on Potassium Chloride (KCL)
- Declare “natural flavouring” or “yeast extract” on package labelling
- Optimise frozen, chilled and ambient applications (pasteurised, sterilised)
Tastesense Mouthfeel
When sugar, fat or salt are reduced in foods and beverages, texture and mouthfeel may suffer. Tastesense Mouthfeel solves texture challenges through the application of rheology, tribology and sensory expertise. The solutions in this range were created with different application and tonality challenges in mind. They can be used alone or in conjunction with other TasteSense products.
Use Tastesense Mouthfeel to:
- Bring back mouthfeel that may have been lost in nutritionally optimised products
- Deliver balanced texture and mouthfeel
- Declare “flavouring” or “natural flavouring” on package labelling
Tastesense Masking
The use of functional and nutritional ingredients such as proteins, mineral, vitamins and natural and artificial sweeteners can cause foods and beverages to develop undesired off-notes. Tastesense Masking solutions address challenges common in healthy and nutritious products such as astringency, bitterness, metallic taste, acidity and chalkiness.
Use Tastesense Masking to:
- Mask the undesired off-notes that can develop when using ingredients including proteins, minerals, vitamins and sweeteners
- Deliver a balanced taste with a clean after-taste
- Deliver a natural, clean taste experience
- Declare “flavouring” or “natural flavouring” on package labelling
Unlock sustainable sweetness
Sustainability is key for sweetened food and drinks