There are many different ways to get lemon flavor into a product. Some common techniques are to include natural lemon juice, lemon zest, or even lemon pulp to add or boost lemon flavor. Other options for adding lemon into your flavor profile include the use of natural and artificial flavors. Our team at Northwestern Extract has worked hard to craft 7 different lemon flavors, many of which are TTB approved. Let’s talk about each lemon flavor and the differences in their flavor profiles.
Lemon
Our lemon flavor is a lemon flavor that provides balanced citrus and tartness with a hint of sweetness. This flavor focuses pairs well as a background flavor for adding brightness to a flavor palette and works well in lip balms, seltzer, and candy applications.
Lemon Bar
The lemon bar flavor picks up on the sweeter flavor tones that most lemon bars have, while adding an extra boost of tartness and a hint of the buttery crust. Because of this, the flavor’s sharp yet clean profile makes it a great headlining flavor for bold applications like distilled spirits, ice creams, or even baked goods.
Lemon Custard
Our lemon custard flavor approaches lemon with a more muted palette of sweetness with greater focus on the wholesome flavor of a custard. This flavor is creamy and smooth with the right blend of citrus and tartness sprinkled throughout.
Lemon Lime
This flavor focuses in on the mixture of both lemon and lime to create a refreshing experience after every taste. Dancing between lemon and lime, the benefit of this lemon flavor is that it provides additional notes not present in Northwestern Extract’s other lemon flavors while maintaining the clarity and crisp edge of the lemon flavor.
Lemonade
The lemonade flavor shines best in candies, brewed and distilled products, and baked goods as it brings tartness and sweetness to the forefront. This flavor makes both aspects of the flavor bold and boisterous as key components.
Pink Lemonade
NWE’s pink lemonade takes the lemonade flavor and brings it to a whole new level, adding in a sour component. Our pink lemonade flavor leaves tasters feeling refreshed with a sour tingle on their tongue.
Tart Lemon
Our tart lemon cuts through many flavors to give the undeniable pucker power of the lemon a star role in your product’s flavor palette. This flavor is both sharp and bold, resulting in a lemon flavor that gives a good tang of citrus in any application.
Try a lemon flavor today by adding it to an existing flavor or in a new application. The flavor experts are just a call away at 1-800-466-3034. Get started on a new flavor today!
