AI reformulation copilot for food & beverage R&D
Narrow 50 bench trials down to 3.
FlavorLab turns a reformulation brief (“replace Red 40”, “cut sugar 30%”, “mask pea protein”, “use less cocoa”) into a cited, constraint-aware bench plan in minutes, not weeks of trial and error.
Free during beta · No exact percentages required · Built for R&D professionals
Every formula on the US shelf is being rewritten.
Four industry-wide pressures share one shape: “we changed an ingredient, and now it tastes wrong.”
01
January 2027
The next binding dye deadline
The FDA wants Red 40, Yellow 5 & 6, Blue 1 & 2, and Green 3 out of the US food supply, and the binding dates run through 2028: Red 3 out of food, California's bans, then West Virginia's full retail ban. Natural replacements fade, shift with pH, and change flavor.
02
30% less sugar
Reduction that breaks products
Sugar carries mouthfeel, bulk, browning, and flavor release. Cutting it collapses the eating experience, and every sweetener system brings its own off-notes and legal limits.
03
GLP-1 era
Protein that tastes like chalk
Appetite-suppressed consumers want compact, protein-rich nutrition. Protein loads bring bitterness, grit, and beany or metallic off-notes that need deliberate masking.
04
2-3× cost
The cocoa cost crisis
Cocoa still trades at multiples of historical norms. Teams are cutting cocoa loads and pushing flavor systems harder to keep the chocolate promise. Vanilla and coffee are next.
Four modules. Four budgeted projects.
Each module maps to a reformulation project your team already has on its roadmap, with its own knowledge base and report engine.
Next binding US deadline: January 2027
Color Transition
Replace synthetic dyes without losing the product.
See what the report covers →
Sugar does 4 jobs; sweetness is only one of them
Sugar Reduction
Cut sugar without collapsing mouthfeel and flavor balance.
See what the report covers →
The GLP-1 consumer is reshaping product briefs
Protein & GLP-1 Fortification
Add protein and fiber without the bitterness and grit.
See what the report covers →
Cocoa still trades at 2-3× historical norms
Cocoa Cost Reduction
Keep the chocolate promise while cutting cocoa load.
See what the report covers →
How it works
01
Describe the brief
Product category, the relevant ingredients, your goal, and the constraints that decide everything: process heat, pH, packaging, shelf life, target markets. Exact percentages never required.
02
Get a bench-note report
Options A and B with starting dosage ranges, taste and stability impacts against your stated constraints, a masking matrix, risks, and regulatory status with citations, each labeled rule, state law, or pledge.
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Validate at the bench
The report ends in a test plan: what to run, in what order, with which sensory checkpoints. FlavorLab narrows 50 trials to 3. Your lab makes the call.
Free public data
The Dye Ban Tracker
Pledges are not labels. We measure what US products actually say: how many still list each dye, which categories are furthest behind, and which products change month to month. Updated monthly from public label data, alongside the dates that are genuinely binding.
And what to do about them. Our reformulation guides take each dye and each category and screen the natural replacements against that category’s real process (a 190°C bake, a pH 3 soda in clear PET, an opaque snack bag), including which of the usual recommendations are not even listed for use there in the US.
Browse the reformulation guides →Built to be trusted at the bench.
Ideation, not formulation
FlavorLab is an accelerator for professional R&D teams. Every report is a starting point for bench work, never a shelf-ready formula, and never a safety claim.
Citations or silence
Regulatory statements come only from retrieved legal text (eCFR sections, EU regulations, state laws) with citations, status labels, and verification dates. If it isn't in our sources, the report says so.
Your formulas stay yours
Exact percentages are never required, briefs are never used to train models or shared with third parties, and you can ask us to delete your stored briefs at any time.
Be first at the bench.
The Color Transition module opens first, ahead of the binding dye deadlines. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment your module is live.