Symtrap™ flavor encapsulation technology
SymTrap™ is Symrise's patented encapsulation technology that protects volatile flavor compounds from degradation during food processing and storage, ensuring consistent flavor delivery throughout product shelf life.
Overview
Volatile flavor molecules are easily lost or degraded during high-temperature processing (baking, UHT, extrusion) and prolonged storage. SymTrap uses a patented matrix encapsulation system to physically protect these compounds, releasing them at the point of consumption rather than during manufacture. This ensures the finished product delivers the intended flavor profile months after production — critical for products with long ambient shelf lives.
Technical specifications
- Technology: patented matrix encapsulation for volatile flavor protection
- Function: protects flavors from heat degradation, oxidation, and evaporative loss during processing and storage
- Release mechanism: controlled release during consumption (chewing, dissolution)
- Process tolerance: survives baking, UHT, pasteurization, extrusion
- Applications: baked goods, UHT beverages, extruded snacks, confectionery, dairy, dry mixes
- Patent status: patented technology
Technology readiness level
TRL 9 — commercially available patented technology integrated into Symrise's flavor solutions.
About Symrise
Symrise creates fragrance, flavor, natural nutrition and cosmetic ingredient solutions. The company operates through two segments, Taste, Nutrition & Health and Scent & Care, with activities spanning research & development, purchasing, production and sales, enabling customer-oriented and pragmatic delivery. In Scent & Care, its perfumers compose aromatic ingredients into fragrances, with perfume oils used in perfumes, personal care and household products; the segment also offers mint flavors for oral care and produces cosmetic ingredients used in areas such as multifunctional cosmetics and sun protection. In Taste, Nutrition & Health, it produces flavor and functional components for food and beverages, including solutions for baby and pet food, and supports health-related positioning with ingredients such as probiotics.
Symrise works with manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, plus pharmaceutical-industry and nutritional supplement and pet-food producers. This matters because the ingredients and product solutions form part of everyday consumer products—helping customers meet demand for responsibly sourced inputs and natural options while supporting product development with market-ready concepts delivered across a global network.
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