Confectionery products rely on strong sensory appeal, so taste, colour, and texture must come together to create a memorable experience. Natural flavours bring out the sharpness of citrus, the mellow flavour of vanilla and the freshness of mint in products like sweets and coatings. Fruit powders are also popular for adding real fruit flavour and colour, especially in items where juice is limited or a powdered form works better for processing.
Ingredients for Confectionery Applications
Colour is a major factor in making confectionery products stand out, with natural options like spirulina, safflower, beetroot, and carrot offering a wide range of choices. These colours stay vibrant through processes like boiling, panning, and drying, and can be used to create both solid colours and multi-tonal effects.
Some recent Confectionery projects:
Chocolates Flavoured with Fruit Powders @ 3%
Chocolates flavoured with fruit powders at 3%
Gummies for exhibitions - Various flavourings inc Clementine, Strawberry and Mango
Gummies using natural colours
Kanegrade hummingbird in gummy form!
Hard-boiled Candy drops with various flavours including Raspberry
Hard-boiled candy drops with Lemon flavouring and Safflower colour
Raspberry and lemon-flavoured hard sweets
Flavourings, Natural Colours & Fruit Powders for Confectionery
As well as offering a full-range of flavourings suitable for confectionery, Kanegrade also offers natural colours which will be stable in the process, ensuring the visual impact is retained in the final product. How a product looks forms our first impression on the shelf, and studies have proven good colouring such as vibrant reds, striking greens and calming blues also improve the taste via colour-taste synaesthesia.
Kanegrade also offers fruit powders, which have gained popularity in confectionery manufacturing for their ability to impart subtle but authentic fruit flavours while also enhancing the nutritional profile of the sweets. They can be used an be used as a dusting or in a sherbet type mix and although weaker than an equivalent aroma of a flavour powder, they provide a natural alternative ingredient.
To receive samples of our flavours, natural colours or fruit powders for use in your next confectionery project, please get in touch. We look forward to working with you.
