Innovating in Vanilla

With its unmatched versatility, vanilla remains a popular choice for flavor innovation.

Whether you are looking for indulgent experiences in sweet goods or emerging flavor pairings in savory dishes and beverages – vanilla offers endless possibilities to elevate your products!

However the vanilla supply chain faces significant challenges, including market volatility, climate disruptions, and complex sourcing. To ensure a sustainable future for vanilla, it is essential to create innovative solutions and invest in long-term research.

That's where we come in! We help you navigate these complexities, offering innovative solutions that keep you ahead of market trends. With our broad range from premium natural extracts to cost-effective solutions, we help you create unique vanilla taste for any application. Discover how we innovate in vanilla to secure your future success with a consistent, high-quality vanilla supply that meets today's demands and tomorrow's opportunities.

Creating innovative solutions

With our longstanding expertise and comprehensive knowledge, we anticipate future trends and create innovative, customized vanilla solutions for your products. Discover our capabilities ensuring we stay ahead of the curve!

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Navigating consumer preferences and innovating with confidence

This AI-powered prediction platform decodes how flavor trends develop across categories and regions, identifying new market opportunities and supporting flavor design. It offers insights into emotional profiles, product claims and flavor pairings. Fast, data-driven, and continuously evolving.

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Unlocking unique flavors sustainably

This proprietary technology, installed at our production plant in Benavony, transforms by-products into ingredients for your next signature taste. By capturing volatile flavor components from production processes, we reduce waste and create unique flavor profiles that would otherwise be lost.

Delivering innovative solutions, tailored for sweet success

Our passionate teams combine deep vanilla expertise with creative talent to develop unique, tailor-made flavor profiles that capture vanilla's full complexity. Through expert formulation, flexible sampling and sensory validation, our specialists help you innovate with exceptional vanilla.

Understanding complex market and consumer needs

We identify emerging food & beverage trends and uncover what drives purchasing decisions. Our global studies and continuous market exploration provide deep insights into evolving preferences, ensuring you stay ahead of consumer needs.

Optimizing product performance during its entire shelf life

This tool offers a rapid assessment of flavor performance and product stability, identifying and resolving potential off-notes and stability issues before they reach your consumers. It empowers you to improve product quality and deliver a better overall sensory experience for any application.

We are continuously enhancing our knowledge of vanilla plants to help farmers cultivate them more effectively and successfully.Esther-Corinna Schwarze, Master Technologist AgroScience

Sustaining the future of vanilla

Vanilla is a long-standing cultivated crop that depends on certain climatic conditions and is very sensitive to Fusarium, a soil-borne fungal disease. To ensure its sustainable cultivation, long-term research is essential to understand external effects and study disease-resistant varieties. Our agricultural science centers in both Madagascar and Holzminden work closely together, allowing us to combine innovative science with local know-how. Our teams continuously improve their understanding of the plant's biological needs and train partner farmers on agricultural best practices. With our unique setup and internal reserach teams, we ensure a stable supply of vanilla for you - now and in the future.

Our objective is to sustainably protects vanilla and ensure our partner farmers are not left to face the challenges of vanilla cultivation alone. This is why we are working on two research projects together with NewFoodSystems, with support and sponsorship from the German Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space. Based on the results of our research activities, we are building a new laboratory in Benavony to focus on local research.

Discover the projects SustainVanil and FoxyVanil below!

SustainVanil

With this research project we aim to improve the long-term production security and quality of vanilla through innovative cultivation techniques and systems. This includes investigating the physiological growth and development processes of vanilla, analyzing changes in the content profile (metabolome) during these processes and researching new biological plant protection measures. The "SustainVanil" project has achieved significant outcomes across its four key focus areas.

In terms of vanilla as an agricultural crop, the research established the basic compatibility of vanilla with protected and controlled cultivation methods. Analysis of plant ingredients revealed that a metabolomics approach is a suitable tool for better understanding the effects of growth factors at a molecular level. For plant health and biological plant protection, molecular biological methods for detecting Fusarium infection have been successfully developed. Finally, in knowledge transfer, sustainability, and international cooperation, close collaboration with partners in Madagascar has enabled the sustainable implementation of research results.

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FoxyVanil

This research project aims to characterize and compare the metabolome of various Fusarium oxysporum-tolerant and -intolerant vanilla plant genotypes. It includes an infection experiment in which four different genotypes are infected with F. oxysporum and sampled several times over a period of five days. The outcome of this research ultimately enables us to establish a stable, pesticide-free and thus more environmentally friendly and sustainable cultivation of vanilla.

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