On May 8, 2025, flavor suppliers and flavor professionals gathered in Newark, NJ for the annual CSA New Jersey Roundtable. As in past years, the Bedoukian team was excited to participate in the event and hosted 16 tasting sessions with the nearly 100 attendees.
Clarisa Braier, Bedoukian’s F&F Sales Manager for the Americas, was joined by Maha Ali, Bedoukian’s F&F Lab Manager, and two members of Bedoukian’s marketing team to present Bedoukian’s high quality flavor ingredients in flavor demos. Clarisa Braier observed, “The CSA roundtable is such an important event. It brings together key industry players in a forum where flavor ingredients are tasted and feedback shared literally across the table from each other.”
At the event, Bedoukian presented its featured 2025 demos which included three ingredients in four formulations:
- 3-METHYL-2,4-NONANEDIONE (BRI #841),is a very versatile flavor ingredient. It provides a sweet, hay character, reminiscent of green and black tea. At lower levels, its cream notes enhance caramel, milk and other dairy flavors. Its dry green notes work well for use in dried parsley, chive, and dried spinach. It also works well for seafood flavors such as anchovy and seaweed. The ingredient occurs naturally in green and black teas, anchovies, soybean oil, butter, and dried parsley and spinach.
This newly added ingredient was presented in two flavor profiles. In the black tea formulation, 3-METHYL-2,4-NONANEDIONE brought the tea leaves character forward by increasing the sweet hay note. In the seaweed formulation, the ingredient turned the fishy character to a natural seaweed.
- 6-METHYLHEPTANAL (BRI #282),delivers a fresh, juicy, citrus character reminiscent of grapefruit juice. 6-METHYLHEPTANAL adds fresh grapefruit character to a variety of applications especially beverages. The ingredient blends very well with nootkatone and occurs naturally in orange juice essence oil. It adds fresh-squeezed juice notes in any citrus flavor including orange, tangerine, grapefruit, pomelo, and yuzu.
6-METHYLHEPTANAL was presented in a grapefruit beverage. Adding this ingredient to the formulation increased the flavor strength and created a more natural grapefruit taste similar to pink grapefruit.
- SPILANTHOL (BRI #255), was first introduced by Bedoukian last year. Spilanthol is a nature identical molecule that occurs in Jambu oil and offers trigeminal tingling with a numbing effect at higher levels. It is great for oral care products and novelty confections and beverages because of the “zing” it adds.
This year, at the New Jersey Roundtable, Bedoukian demonstrated SPILANTHOL in a dark chocolate mint candy where the ingredient enhanced the peppermint/menthol cooling effect in the confection.
In addition to the planned presentations, Bedoukian brought samples of all of its 2025 featured ingredients and let the attendees choose any that they wished to smell. The participants were also able to complete a sample request form to receive samples for further testing in their formulations.
Clarisa Braier commented, “It was a great event and we were very pleased with the feedback we received on all of the ingredients we presented.” She continued, “We hope that our presence at the CSA events will strengthen our customer relationships. We also plan to present at the CSA Roundtable in Chicago later this year to expand our presence to companies in the Midwest.”
If anyone was unable to attend the CSA New Jersey Roundtable, more details on what was presented are available at https://bedoukian.com/CSANJ/. Samples of the ingredients presented at the New Jersey event, and any of Bedoukian’s high-quality ingredients, may be requested by going to https://bedoukian.com/sample-request or by reaching out directly to Clarisa Braier at cbraier@Bedoukian.com.
