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Food Safari

Our way of tracking down the next big flavour

Throughout the year, our team takes part in Food Safaris — organised flavour-hunting trips designed to uncover the trends shaping tomorrow’s products.

We explore restaurants, street food, retail launches, and emerging concepts, tasting and recording everything from classic profiles to the unexpected. Each stop offers insight into new flavour combinations, innovative ingredient use, and consumer-driven claims that could influence your next product.

What We Look For

• Flavour innovation — creative combinations and bold taste profiles
• Ingredient opportunities — hidden heroes with functionality or health appeal
• Market signals — cues from menus, retail shelves, and global cuisines
• Practical inspiration — ideas that can translate into production-ready solutions

Why It Matters

• First-hand insight — the best way to track food trends is to experience them directly
• Customer focus — understanding what consumers will be looking for next
• Actionable outcomes — bringing back ideas that can be developed into bespoke blends and seasonings for your products

From Safari to Solution

Every Food Safari ends back in our development kitchen, where insights are transformed into tailored seasonings and mixes. This ensures that what we discover out in the market becomes a practical advantage for our customers. Sharing the Benefits

Seats on a Food Safari are limited, but every customer benefits from the insights. The flavours we taste, the trends we track, and the notes we gather all inform the work we do — helping you stay one step ahead in flavour innovation.

Who We Work With

Supplying Ingredients That Power the UK’s Leading Ready Meals We supply food ingredients, blends, spices, coatings, glazes, and functional ingredients to some of the most well-known names in ready meal manufacturing — from national brands to fast-growing independents.

Whether you’re producing chilled, frozen or microwaveable ready meals, we understand the pressures of large-scale production: quality, consistency, cost-efficiency and speed to market.

Cost Reduction

Cost Re-Spicing is the process of modifying a recipe or formulation by replacing higher-cost spices, herbs, or raw materials with more economical alternatives, while maintaining the intended flavour profile as closely as possible.

At its core, it’s a cost optimisation technique that allows manufacturers to navigate volatile ingredient markets, manage inflationary pressures, or meet tighter margin targets—without sacrificing product quality in a way that would be noticeable to the customer.

Examples of Re-Spicing in Action

• Replacing ground black pepper with black pepper oleoresin: same pungency and aroma at a fraction of the cost, and in more concentrated form.
• Swapping fresh garlic for dehydrated garlic powder or even garlic flavouring compound.
• Using dried herbs in place of fresh when the flavour impact is negligible in cooked applications.
• Switching from whole spices to extracts, essential oils, or compound blends that are standardised and lower in unit cost.

What It’s Not

Re-spicing is not about radically altering the recipe or cutting corners on quality. It’s about smart substitution—making precise, targeted changes that:
• Reduce ingredient spend
• Avoid triggering new labelling or allergen issues
• Stay true to the product’s original sensory character


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Modern Diets

Vegan? Gluten-free? Free from everything but flavour?
You name it, we’ll sort it. And yes — it’ll still taste like the real deal.

We specialise in re-spicing and reformulating to meet today’s diverse dietary demands, without compromising on depth, authenticity, or enjoyment. Whether it’s:

• Taking out dairy but keeping the creaminess
• Swapping animal-derived ingredients for plant-based alternatives
• Ditching gluten without losing texture or flavour delivery
• Cleaning up the label while keeping it craveable

—we make it work. Seamlessly. Deliciously. Quietly clever.

Modern eating shouldn’t mean missing out — and with us, it doesn’t.

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Safari