New Approaches to Colouring Savoury Boxed and Packet Mixes
Colour is important
in savoury dishes.
Visual differentiation between a hollandaise sauce and a gravy can help consumers anticipate taste and adds to the overall experience.
Colour improves flavour perception by +15% in food and beverage products.
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Savoury boxed and packet mixes are staples of many European homes and are rising in popularity for convenience-seeking shoppers. Much like sweet baking mixes, savoury mixes require developers to consider multiple stages of the product when formulating with colour.
Tips for Using Colour in Savoury Mixes
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Tips for Using Colour in Savoury Mixes
1. Avoid Specking
Incomplete colour incorporation due to solubility issues can create an unappealing visual for consumers as they cook or eat at home. Using colours that mitigate incorporation challenges can help avoid specking and create a consistent, attractive appearance for the dish.
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2. Use Bold Colours for Bold Flavours
Because colour influences flavour perception, research shows that if a product is marketed on a bold flavour such as spice or richness, the colour should visually support that claim to enhance the consumer experience. Choose colours that match visual expectations to avoid consumer disappointment.
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3. Colour Multiple Stages
Developers should ensure that colour is fully incorporated at every stage, from the powder mix to the hydrated sauce or base. Finally, noodle staining is often an important aspect of the product experience, so ensuring the colour experience meets consumer expectations is key.
Natural Colours for Packet Mixes for Sauces, Noodles, and Meals
Plant-Based Sausage Gravy Mix
Sensient’s Natural Brown enables developers to achieve rich savoury brown shades without caramel colouring for applications like plant-based gravy mixes.
Sample Caramel-Free Natural Browns
Smoked Cheddar
Mac n Cheese
Paprika and carrot create delicious cheesy orange sauces and boxed mixes. Every batch of botanical raw materials is carefully inspected and tested under Sensient’s Certasure™ food safety program.
Sample Natural Oranges Here
Green Curry Sauce Mix
Sensient’s green options based upon colouring food or natural colours are the perfect choice for applications like a green curry sauce packet.
Sample Natural Greens for Dry Mixes
Hollandaise Mix
Sensient’s portfolio of colouring foods and natural colours, including those based on turmeric and beta carotene, enable developers to achieve the perfect yellow shade for hollandaise sauce mix.
Sample Natural Yellows Here
Tzatziki Sauce Mix
To create bright, clean white sauce mixes without titanium dioxide, developers can use Sensient’s Avalanche™ portfolio of clean label whitening solutions.
Sample Avalanche™ Here
Hot n Spicy Plant-Based Ramen Packet
Sensient’s Red Microfine™ has been developed to provide brands with an natural, effective, bold red hue for the spiciest flavour profiles.
Sample Blazing Red Microfine™ Here
Caribbean Jerk
Marinade Mix
For darker hues like Carribean jerk marinade packet mix, blends of Microfine solutions in Red combined with brown hues from the Natural Brown platform create rich, delicious visuals.
Sample Microfine™ Solutions Here
Gluten Free Cream
of Chicken Soup Mix
The flour typically used in Cream of Chicken soups adds opacity. Adding Sensient’s Avalanche™ maintains the opacity expected of this product while meeting gluten-free labeling requirements.
Sample Avalanche™ Here
Creating delicious savoury dry mixes for sauces, marinades, soups, noodles, and more is possible with nature’s rainbow.
Let Sensient’s team help you unleash the power of nature’s true colours in your next project!
