Ingredients specialist expands
UK Suffolk-based natural flavours and ingredients specialist, Omega Ingredients, has unveiled a new Creative and Innovation Suite as part of its new premises. The site, which is in Great Blakenham, will double the company’s operating space.
To celebrate the official opening of the new premises, on 16 September, BBC TV presenter and food writer Stefan Gates attended a launch party, along with 80 other guests from across Suffolk and the food and beverage industries.
Stefan Gates joined guests as they were given flavour demonstrations and shown some of the company’s latest products. They were also given a tour of the new facilities and a demonstration of the firm’s innovative equipment. This included a highly specialised machine that separates flavours/mixtures and identifies components. Other equipment included a spray drier, which takes a liquid flavour and turns it into a powder.
Guests were also introduced to a new range of flavours from Omega Ingredients called the KiiNotes range. The KiiNotes are a range provenance driven natural flavours and extracts with excellent top-notes as well as demonstrating the traceability of the natural ingredients and the named item having complete transparency from field-to-fork.
Examples include Sicilian lemon, Brazilian lime, Ecuadorian passionfruit, Scottish raspberry and English blackcurrant. The new range will have a distinctive logo so buyers know they are getting the best quality naturally derived flavours available.
Stefan Gates, TV Presenter comments: “About four or five years ago, I was making a series all about E-numbers and we were trying to make something that most people find intensely boring, mildly interesting. We worked with Steve and did lots of different things to change peoples’ perceptions about food. Steve has got a real sparkle in his eye, he is incredibly creative and when he was talking me through how you build a flavour he kind of sprinkles a bit of star dust on it. He makes it exciting.”
