Our Innovation Programs

Innovation is our lifeblood and we have a long history of game-changing breakthroughs. We’re working with industry leaders to improve lives through discovery. This purpose unites and inspires us globally to create a better world by blending science with creativity.

Our innovation process is customer-backed, market-driven, and informed by our proprietary IFF Panoptic Framework trend intelligence tool. We work across broad consumer market sectors by focusing on:

• Health and wellness
• Food and nutrition
• Sensorial experiences
• Sustainable, circular solutions

Our market-driven and trend-forward approach allows us to bring innovation through our Re-Imagine programs, such as Re-Imagine Wellness™, that are aligned with breakthrough trends.

Wellness is a consumer trend that transcends our product lines and customers. The Re-Imagine Wellness™ program format enables us to manage innovation through a dynamic lens that looks forward to fast-moving consumer behavior.

Driven by consumers’ growing demands for cleaner products and responsible production, RE-IMAGINE CLEAN™ cultivates the next era of clean label innovation.

We offer an extensive portfolio of natural and organic offerings, familiar and clean-label ingredients, and advanced enzyme fermentation technologies. Combining our regulatory expertise with our end-to-end IFF PRODUCT DESIGN™ approach, we help create products that meet the requirements for even the most stringent clean label claims and certifications, such as free-from allergens or non-GMO.

From natural flavors and inclusions to probiotics and botanical extracts, RE-IMAGINE CLEAN™ addresses the desire for trust, transparency, and a healthier world.

We’re on a mission to Do More Good in everything we do--including our ingredient portfolio. Our RE-IMAGINE WASTE™ program puts our values into practice, illuminating the future of food and beverage experiences through sustainable and regenerative design.

Driven by our commitment to social responsibility, environmental consciousness, and better-for-us products, we cultivate sustainable and traceable innovation throughout the food and beverage supply chain.

Applying inventive food waste reduction technologies, RE-IMAGINE WASTE™ utilizes upcycled ingredients and maximizes resources. We meet evolving requirements for claims and certifications and prioritize responsible sourcing of our ingredients.

Our RE-IMAGINE DELIVERY® program ignites extraordinary sensorial experiences.  

With a focus on product stability, food protection, authentic taste, and clean, sustainable product innovation, RE-IMAGINE DELIVERY® develops transformative technologies to capture sensitive ingredients at their peak, protect them throughout product life, and optimize their release for consumption.  

The result? Unforgettable taste experiences that delight consumers across the globe.  

Leveraging our proprietary delivery technologies, we tailor our delivery Product Designs to our customers’ specific requirements--from regulatory compliance to end-use manufacturing considerations.  

With RE-IMAGINE DELIVERY®, the opportunities for rich, authentic taste experiences are limitless.

With the rise of the alternative and plant-based protein movement, RE-IMAGINE PROTEIN® proactively addresses the critical need for category-defining innovation for a healthier and more sustainable future.       

We enable our customers to innovate quickly and win consumer loyalty fast through our extensive ingredient portfolio along with our deep technical expertise, formulation and process know-how. With our state-of the art pilot facilities along with our global and regional technical experts, we can offer an accelerated scale up for production.       

Engaging our cross-category application expertise, we generate customized nutrition profiles for diverse consumer preferences.   From designing dairy and meat alternatives to exploring cellular agriculture applications, we’re the essential partner to expand plant-based protein across categories. 

With an unprecedented focus on global health and wellbeing, the demand for ingredients enabling healthy food and better nutrition has never been higher. Through our RE-IMAGINE WELLNESS™ program, we harness the power of science and nature to drive physical and mental wellbeing in food and beverages.

RE-IMAGINE WELLNESS™ accelerates innovation across a broad range of ingredients for targeted categories, from beverages, bars and dairy to culinary and plant-based foods. We address the needs for better-for-you and functional benefits, such as sugar, salt and fat reduction, weight management, digestive, immune, muscle, mental health, and personalized nutrition solutions. With our unparalleled portfolio of modulators, flavorings, texturants, inclusions, protein solutions and health ingredients, such as probiotics and botanicals, we craft solutions across the entire spectrum of health and wellness.

We’re here to create a healthier world - and through our combined capabilities and application expertise, RE-IMAGINE WELLNESS™ translates our mission into action.

RE-IMAGINE DIGITAL™ accelerates the future of the food and beverage landscape through augmented creativity, accelerated insight generation, hybrid customer-consumer connections, and hyper-personalization.  

Harnessing the power of digital technology, we generate future possibilities of increased speed, accessibility, and predictability in product development.    

Through our collaboration with external industry thought leaders, we broaden our capabilities and leverage digital technologies like artificial intelligence and uncommon AR experiences to unlock the endless possibilities ahead.   

RE-IMAGINE DIGITAL™ aims to challenge the perception, experience and deliverables of what customers have come to expect from an ingredient partner.

Through our RE-MASTER CITRUS™ program, we build a collection of global citrus flavors and technologies that elevate product freshness, and deliver authentic regionally specific taste profiles.

We respect resources by utilizing every drop of citrus oil to preserve resource streams, along with driving sustainable designs through natural replacement and extender technologies. As we work toward a more sustainable future, we also partner with academia and industry experts to cultivate a holistic citrus eco-system.

We re-master and elevate taste through technologies that improve stability, capture authenticity, and deliver refreshment in a range of end uses. Through our IFF PRODUCT DESIGN™ approach, we craft inventive, sustainable, and category-defining citrus solutions for the next generation.

RE-MASTER VANILLA™ leverages responsible sourcing, supply risk mitigation, and innovative taste solutions for the next era of vanilla. 

To mitigate the industry challenges of supply risk and price instability, we developed a multiple origin platform to strategically diversify our sourcing strategies. We work to cultivate greater supply chain traceability and empower change through environmentally-conscious and socially responsible programs managed locally at different origins.

We are pioneers in diverse extraction processes and through our strong research programs have developed botanical technologies that allow us to create vanilla flavors and extract extenders. i Staying agile and relevant to market shifts, we develop application-specific vanilla tools, signature tastes, and one-of-a-kind recipe designs. 

Built on our bold heritage of vanilla excellence, RE-MASTER VANILLA™ is a potent force for a better and more sustainable future.