Trends
The Pickle Flavor Trend Has Left the Chip Aisle
Why pickle flavor keeps expanding, which pickle profile a brief actually means, and what the vinegar note does in different applications.
October 12, 2026 · 3 min
Trend topic
Nostalgic Flavors
Childhood-coded profiles as a premium positioning tool.
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Trends
Seven Flavor Trends Reshaping Food & Beverage in 2027
The seven flavor directions with the clearest path from social virality to mainstream launch in 2027, assessed for what each requires from formulation.
September 10, 2026 · 3 min
Confectionery
Freeze-Dried Candy Trends: What Product Developers Should Know
Why freeze-dried candy keeps growing, what the process does to flavor and texture, and the manufacturing constraints that decide whether a product scales.
September 10, 2026 · 3 min
Trends
Why Pistachio Became One of the Most Important Flavor Trends
How pistachio moved from gelato niche to one of the most requested flavor profiles, why supply cannot follow, and what that means for formulation.
September 10, 2026 · 2 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Surge?
What Surge tastes like, its launch, discontinuation and revivals, how it compares with Mountain Dew and Mello Yello, and what it takes to bring back a discontinued flavor.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is the Purple Skittle?
What the purple Skittle tastes like in the US and the UK, why American grape candy tastes of Concord grape, and the story of the lime and green apple swap.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is the Mystery Dum Dum?
What the Mystery Dum Dum tastes like, what Spangler has said about how it is made, why changeover candy exists, and what it means if you run a hard candy line.
November 4, 2026 · 4 min
Flavor profile
Birthday Cake Flavor
What birthday cake flavor is made of, how it differs from yellow cake and vanilla, where it came from, and how to build it into ice cream, protein and candy.
November 3, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is the Pink Starburst?
What the pink Starburst tastes like, what the official flavor is, why strawberry ends up pink, and how to build a strawberry fruit chew that reads the same way.
November 3, 2026 · 4 min
Flavor profile
Fruit Punch Flavor
What fruit punch flavor tastes like, which fruits usually lead it, how brands and suppliers build it differently, and the emulsion, color and juice-labeling rules that matter.
November 2, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Juicy Fruit?
What Juicy Fruit gum tastes like, what Wrigley has and has not said about the fruits, why people compare it to jackfruit, and how to build a fruit gum-type flavor.
October 30, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
Cream Soda Flavor
What cream soda flavor is, why it tastes creamy without dairy, the role of foam, red versus clear cream soda, Australian and New Zealand creaming soda, and how to build it.
October 29, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Is Tutti Frutti Flavor?
What tutti frutti flavor tastes like, the esters behind it, how it relates to bubblegum and Red Bull, what tutti frutti means in India, and how to build it.
October 29, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Is Malt Flavor?
What malt flavor is, which compounds make barley malt taste malty, diastatic versus non-diastatic malt powder, and how malt works in shakes, candy, bakery and malt drinks.
October 28, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Cotton Candy?
What cotton candy tastes like, why ethyl maltol is the core of cotton candy flavor, how floss is flavored and colored, and what goes wrong in products.
October 27, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Is Sarsaparilla?
What sarsaparilla is, how the Smilax root itself tastes, why sarsaparilla soda tastes of wintergreen, licorice and vanilla, and how it relates to root beer.
October 27, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
Bubblegum Flavor
What bubblegum flavor is made of, the fruit, spice and compounds behind it, where it came from, and how to use it outside chewing gum.
October 26, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Yellow Cake?
What yellow cake tastes like, where the butter, vanilla, egg and baked notes come from, how box mixes differ, and how to use the flavor in unbaked products.
October 26, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
Root Beer Flavor
What root beer tastes like and why, from sassafras and the 1960 safrole ban to wintergreen, vanilla and licorice, and how to build a root beer flavor today.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Big Red?
What Big Red tastes like, why it is a vanilla cream soda despite the red color, and how to build a red cream soda for drinks, floats and frozen treats.
October 22, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Is Tiger's Blood Flavor?
What tiger's blood flavor is, where the shaved ice syrup came from, how the strawberry-watermelon-coconut blend is built, and what fails in drinks and powders.
October 22, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is the Mystery Airhead?
What the White Mystery Airhead tastes like, how it started, the production-line explanation, and what it shows about color and flavor in candy.
October 21, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Superman Ice Cream?
What the red, yellow and blue in Superman ice cream usually taste like, how the mix varies by maker, its unproven Detroit origin, and what it takes to make one.
October 20, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Blue Moon Ice Cream?
What Blue Moon ice cream tastes like, the disputed origin claims, who owns the name, and how to build a blue moon-type ice cream for your own range.
October 19, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Butterbeer?
What butterbeer tastes like, the butterscotch chemistry behind it, what Universal has said about its version, and how to build a butterscotch cream soda.
October 19, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Are Swedish Fish?
What red Swedish Fish taste like, why lingonberry is the usual answer, what the ingredients do, and how to build a Swedish Fish-type red berry chew.
October 16, 2026 · 4 min
Flavor profile
What Flavor Is Candy Corn?
What candy corn tastes like, which ingredients create the honey-vanilla profile, and what to plan for before building a candy corn flavored product for fall.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min
Flavor profile
Pistachio Flavor
Pistachio flavor profile, why demand accelerated, applications across bakery, dairy and confectionery, and the technical realities of formulating with it.
October 9, 2026 · 2 min
Flavor profile
Blue Raspberry Flavor
What blue raspberry actually is, where the profile came from, how it is built, and why it remains one of the most commercially reliable flavors in confectionery and supplements.
September 16, 2026 · 2 min
Application
Freeze-Dried Candy
How freeze-drying transforms candy — the texture mechanism, what happens to the flavor, and what manufacturers scaling the format need to control.
October 15, 2026 · 2 min
Application
Confectionery Flavor Development
A hub for confectionery flavor — candy, gummies, chocolate and freeze-dried formats, and the process constraints that decide which flavors are possible.
September 10, 2026 · 2 min
Research
Most-Searched Candy Flavor Profiles
Measured US search demand for 18 candy flavors and formats against the number of brands selling them in Open Food Facts. Includes Dubai chocolate, where search peaked four months before Lindt reached national retail, and freeze-dried candy, down 86% from late 2023.
October 16, 2026 · 11 min
Trend hub
Emerging Flavor Profiles
Emerging flavor profiles to watch — which are still early, which are already crowded, and how the adoption lifecycle typically runs.
October 14, 2026 · 1 min
Trend hub
Candy & Confectionery Trends
Confectionery and candy flavor trends — freeze-dried formats, nostalgic profiles in adult products, sour systems and the swicy crossover.
September 10, 2026 · 1 min