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Nactarome: New possibilities in natural innovation

As food innovation becomes increasingly multi-dimensional, Nactarome's expanding expertise reflects a growing industry focus on integrated natural ingredient solutions.

Nactarome's evolution over the past decade reflects a significant shift in how food and beverage innovation is created. As consumer expectations become more complex, successful product development increasingly depends on the ability to combine multiple areas of expertise, technologies, and ingredient disciplines into solutions that deliver on taste, functionality, naturalness, and sensory appeal simultaneously.

While Nactarome's roots lie in flavour, the Group has intentionally expanded its capabilities across natural colours, botanical extracts, nutraceutical ingredients, savoury solutions, and specialised food ingredients. This development mirrors a broader industry movement away from isolated ingredient categories and towards integrated innovation platforms designed to solve multiple formulation challenges at once.

Today's consumers continue to demand exceptional taste, but that is only part of the equation. They are also looking for products that support wellbeing, demonstrate clean label credentials, offer visual impact, and deliver distinctive experiences that stand out in increasingly competitive markets. For manufacturers, meeting these expectations requires more than ingredients alone. It requires expertise that can connect different technologies and disciplines to unlock new product possibilities.

Integration advantage: Where flavour, colour, botanicals, nutrition, and application expertise converge

This is where integration becomes a powerful advantage. By bringing together flavour, colour, botanicals, nutrition, and application expertise within a single organisation, Nactarome helps customers accelerate development, simplify complexity, and create products with stronger consumer appeal. The ability to work across multiple dimensions of formulation can reduce development timelines, improve collaboration, and create more effective innovation pathways from concept to launch.

A key driver of this capability has been Nactarome's strategic growth journey. Over the past 12 years, the Group has completed more than 17 acquisitions, including seven since October 2025. Beyond expanding geographic reach, these investments have been carefully focused on acquiring specialised know-how, proprietary capabilities, advanced technologies, and highly skilled technical teams. The result is an increasingly diverse innovation ecosystem that allows customers to access a broader range of expertise through a single partner.

Today, Nactarome is uniquely positioned to support customers across every stage of product development, from flavour creation and sensory optimisation to colour design, botanical solutions, functional ingredients and application development. This breadth of expertise allows ideas to move more quickly from inspiration to commercially successful products.

Nactarome at Fi Europe 2026: Unlocking what’s possible in natural food and beverage innovation

At Fi Europe 2026, visitors will see how this strategy is translating into tangible innovation opportunities. The Group will introduce a new platform in the New Product Zone that showcases how multiple ingredient technologies can be brought together to create solutions aligned with evolving consumer and market demands.

As the industry continues to advance, the most valuable innovations are unlikely to come from a single ingredient alone. They will emerge from the intelligent combination of expertise, technologies, and creative thinking. By continuously investing in both specialist capabilities and technological advancement, Nactarome is helping customers unlock new possibilities for natural food and beverage innovation.

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