Extracts

OliveNation Food Grade Extracts - Professional Quality Liquid Flavorings for Baking, Cooking & Beverages

When you need top-quality, professional grade flavoring for food and beverage applications, OliveNation's wide selection of extracts offer convenient size options, a wide variety of flavors, ease of use and, of course, exceptional taste. Produced with both home users as well as professional chefs, bakers, brewmasters, and chocolatiers in mind, OliveNation liquid extracts offer true-to-ingredient flavors and aromas that range from traditional standards to on-trend taste for up-to-date signature bakes and brews. We continually source new flavors, ensuring OliveNation extracts give bakers, chefs, home cooks, brewers, and processed food manufacturers the best possible flavoring variety at the best possible price.

What kinds of liquid food grade extracts and flavors are there at OliveNation?

• Pure Extracts & Flavors - OliveNation "pure" extracts are by extracting premium quality ingredients like vanilla beans and orange, lemon, and herb oils into an alcohol base. In order for use to call them pure, they contain artificial additives or flavor compounds, and will be made without artificial colors. Our Pure Extracts and Pure Flavors are made from their named ingredients, water, and alcohol and not from natural flavor compounds that mimic the taste and aroma.
• Organic Extracts- Ths USDA's National Organic Program (NOP) issues Organic Certification for food products that meet its exacting standards. Products that carry USDA Organic certification are made using at least 95% organically produced ingredients that are non-GMO, grown without the use of pesticides, radiation or sludge, and contain no synthetic or artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.
• Natural Extracts Some ingredients, like bananas and cherries, taste very different when they are extracted for flavoring use. Other ingredients, particularly certain plants, are difficult to extract naturally. Natural Flavors and Extracts are made using flavoring compounds derived from natural sources like plants or sometimes animals. When combined, these natural flavoring compounds can perfectly duplicate the taste and aroma of other ingredients, allowing for stronger and in some cases more true-to-ingredient taste in the final products.
• Specialty FlavorsWhether you need to create frosting that tastes just like a classic Bloody Mary, want to create a cappuccino-flavored pastry filling without having to brew espresso, or need a flavoring that tastes just like a peanut butter cup, our specialty flavors make it easy. Cocktail flavors for cocktails or mocktails, flavors that taste like traditional baked goods, and sweet or savory combinations like Tropical Flavoring or Pineapple-Basil Flavor help chefs, bakers, chocolatiers, and brewers find the complex and delicious combinations they need.
• Exotic Extracts From hard-to-find botanical and fruit extracts such as kumquat and calamansi flavors to sugar-free or non-alcoholic extracts for specialty diets, our inventory contains some of the most varied flavorings on the market. These convenient pre-made flavor combinations are simple to use, and so much easier than putting a slice of tiramisu in a blender and hoping for the best.
• TTB Extracts are designed for use in alcoholic beverages produced for commercial sale. TTB refers to the Alcohol & Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which is part of the US Department of the Treasury. TTB-approved flavors and extracts have had their full ingredients list approved in advance so they can be used as part of final product formulas created by brewers, distillers, and beverage manufacturers. Find out more about TTB-approved (also called TTB-compliant) flavorings as well as beer, wine, and RTD drink flavoring ingredients in our Beverages & Brewing category.
• Concentrated Flavors Culinary flavoring strength is measured in "folds." Depending on the extraction or production process and base liquid used, flavors can become more concentrated, allowing less to be used in recipes. Standard strength would be considered single-fold, while a doubled concentration would be called two-fold, 2x, or 2 Fold and require half the amount of volume to duplicate standard strength. Triple concentrations (3 Fold, 3x, or triple-fold) would use 1/3 the amount to duplicate standard strength. Concentrated flavorings are useful not only for reasons of economy, but also because certain applications, like chocolate work, retain taste while reducing liquidity or water content by using small amounts of highly concentrated flavoring.

Using Food Grade Extracts

Baking Extracts are generally alcohol-based, as the flavor of the alcohol itself will evaporate (referred to as baking off or baking out) at high temperatures. Ideal for hi-temp cooking or baking, these versatile flavorings leave behind minimal aftertaste. However, PG-based flavors for bakery and foodservice applications are still water-soluble, but frequently contain no or less alcohol, making them a perfect choice for recipes designed for low-or-no-heat recipes like frostings, ice creams, and beverages, non-alcoholic diets, or where liquid retention is desired for moist texture.

The amount of extract to use in any recipe will depend on the specific flavoring used, but in general it is best to start with approximately 3 ounces of standard-strength flavoring per 5 gallons of total mix. Concentrated flavorings will require less, and formulations should always take final taste into account. Liquid flavorings for brewing applications, as well as flavors to be used in ice cream and other no-bake recipes, will generally require less by volume than flavors intended for use in high-temperature applications.

How to Substitute Extract for Flavor Oil

It's easy to substitute OliveNation extracts for different essential or flavored oils. The general ratio is 4:1, or 4 units of the same flavor extract to 1 unit of oil. If you are using drops of oil, start with 1/4 teaspoon of extract to replace 2 drops of oil, then adjust for taste. Normally you would substitute the same flavor extract as oil, but that depends on the recipe or is a matter of preference.

Product Information, Labeling & Documentation

Accurate ingredient information is particularly important in commercial food and beverage applications, especially for products intended for special diets or clean-label branding. OliveNation product pages offer detailed product descriptions with links to full specification sheets including ingredients, allergen information, and nutritional values, Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and certification status. In addition, our Documentation Request Form makes it easy to quickly request COAs (Certificate of Analysis), and Certification documentation for FIDS/TTB, Organic, and Kosher status.

FAQ About OliveNation Extracts

What are clean-label extracts?

While there is no mandated description of what constitutes "clean label" ingredients for food and beverage use, OliveNation products with that designation are generally non-GMO, include no artificial ingredients, colors, additives, or flavors, and have a single-liquid base. Minimal processing and natural ingredients allow food and beverage professionals to create products with shorter ingredient lists for health-conscious audiences.

What is natural flavoring in food?

The FDA definition of Natural Flavors is as follows: The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.

What is flavor extract?

OliveNation Flavor Extracts are liquid flavorings that taste like the ingredient they are named for, but are made of other ingredients, generally natural flavors, that duplicate the taste and aroma of the named ingredient. When artificial flavorings or ingredients are used in flavor extracts they will be clearly called out in the product ingredient statement.

Why are some extracts clear?

Fruits and vegetables are composed of a lot of different elements: water, citric acid, fiber, pectic, pigment, etc. Flavor chemicals are the part of the plants that create the particular flavor. While sometimes natural flavor chemicals cannot be separated from the botanical elements, many times they can be and are colorless. Synthetic flavor chemicals (man-made to duplicate natural flavor chemicals) are typically clear. The most obvious example is peppermint. When you buy mint chocolate chip ice cream, the green color is added color. Actual peppermint flavor extract is clear.

What is PG in Extracts?

Propylene glycol (PG) is a clear, odorless, water-soluble liquid used as a base for extracting flavor. This ingredient is recognized by the FDA as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) for use in foods and beverages.