The time has come for a new taste for life®

Consumers have changed.
So have we.
Time has come for a new taste for life®.


taste for life® is Symrise’s unique taste platform. taste for life® provides the industry with a fantastic variety of taste solutions which combine consumer insights and the requirements of consumer brands. taste for life® offers new potential and new perspectives to food and beverages people love: by invigorating, refreshing or re-defining brands, and by delivering the taste people love.

taste for life® is our unique approach to turn each taste solution into a success, by connecting Symrise’s inspiration, competences and technologies to consumers’ desires and the industry’s needs.

Consumers and nutrition today

Wherever you go in our globalized world, consumer needs are evolving and developing. New influences enter the markets. New desires arise. Well-known patterns of diet and nutrition are changing as our lifestyle has changed – and the consumers have changed, too. Choosing a food is no longer dictated by the choice between health or indulgence. Today’s consumers want both indulgence and health, both flavor and functionality.
The consumer wants it all.


taste for life®
has been devised as an answer to these multi-faceted consumer needs. It offers easy-to-handle solutions for the industry, giving the consumers the products they desire and the taste they love.

How to meet the consumers’ desires

When it comes to the perception of food, the boundaries are blurring. The era of extremes is over. “Health” has become mainstream, “pleasure” does not have to mean guiltiness, “light” can taste better than the real thing, indulgent food is exciting. As consumers’ needs are constantly changing, consumer brands must respond more quickly to adapt to new desires and to maintain their brand appeal. taste for life® helps to make sense of the emerging and sometimes contradictory consumer needs. It is a tool which enables the industry to precisely target and create great taste solutions for their products and brands.