Spicing up the Food Industry - Check out 15 Unique Chilli Flavours (2024)

Chillies, chile peppers or hot peppers, are extremely popular ingredients in cuisines all around the world. Owing to their popularity, the chilli flavours also play a significant role in the food processing industry. Way chillies come in various shapes, sizes, colors, and levels of heat, each offering a unique taste and aroma to dishes, the different chlili flavors also infuse a distinctive taste and aromatic profile to various food products.

Functions of Chilli Flavours

Chilli flavours play a crucial role in enhancing the flavor, aroma, and overall consumer experience of various food products. Here are some reasons why they are important in food industry:

Heat & Spice: The capsaicin compounds in different chilli flavours add heat and pungency to food products, stimulating consumers' taste buds and creating a pleasing finger-licking sensation.

Flavour Enhancement: The chilli flavours contribute to a distinctive mouthfeel that ranges from mild & fruity to intensely spicy. The chilli flavours complement other ingredients in the product formulations, making the final products more interesting for consumers.

Cultural Significance & Product Diversification: Food manufacturers can diversify their product range, across different cultural regions, based on the popular chilli flavours of various cultures: Mexican, Thai, Indian, Korean, and more.

Versatility: The chilli flavours have endless applications across food products, like sauces, premixes, chilli powders, chilli oils, pickles, meat processing, snacks, seasonings, blended spices, ready-to-eat, ready-to-cook and more!

Applications of Chilli Flavours

Chilli flavours find diverse applications in various food products. Let's explore how they enhance different culinary delights for consumers:
Chips
Chips
Nuts & Namkeen
Nuts & Namkeen
Seasonings and Spice Blends
Seasonings and Spice Blends
Sauces and Condiments
Sauces and Condiments
Processed Meat Products and Sausages
Processed Meat Products and Sausages
Beverages and Cocktails
Beverages and Cocktails
Frozen Foods/Ready Meals
Frozen Foods/Ready Meals
Baked Food Products
Baked Food Products
Chips: Chilli flavours are widely used in chips & snacks industry, providing a spicy kick to potato chips, tortilla chips, nachos, fryums and vegetable crisps. Nuts & Namkeen: Chilli-flavoured coated nuts are an addictive snack, owing to their health perceptions. And chilli flavours are also infused in namkeen products like Ratlami sev, Aloo Bhujia, Khatta Meetha and more!

Seasonings and Spice Blends: Chilli flavours have the most popular use in seasonings and blended masala industry. Everyday products like chilli powder, chilli flakes, and various kind of blended spices like peri peri, garam masala, cajun spice have chilli flavours infused.

Sauces and Condiments: Hot sauces like Tabasco, Sriracha, Schezwan require chilli flavouring to spice up their flavour profile. Besides this, chilli flavours are also used in other condiments like chilli sauces, dips, marinades, chilli infused oils. In some cultures, chilli flavours are used in fermented foods, like gochujang paste.

Processed Meat Products and Sausages: Mild to intense chilli flavours find application in sausages, processed meats and various convenience meat products.

Frozen Foods/Ready Meals/Ready-to-eat/Ready-to-Cook: The chilli flavours also add pungency and heat to frozen and RTE/RTC food products across diverse geographies.

Beverages and Cocktails: Cocktails like Spicy Margarita, Bloody Mary and Indian beverages like Jaljeera, Masala Chaach also require chilli flavouring.

Baked Food Products: While not very popular, mild chilli flavours are seldom added to dark chocolate for a delightful contrast, or used to prepare chilli-infused honey for use in salads and marinades.

Variety of Chilli Flavours

The versatility of chilli flavours allows R&D teams to play around with different pungencies and aromatic properties in different food products! From mild to fiery, there's a chilli flavour variety for every palate! United Group of Food Consultants, manufacturers wide range of natural and NI chilli flavours for Indian and global food industry. Here are some of the most popular chilli flavours:

Jalapeno Flavour
The Jalapeno Flavour is widely used in savoury food products around the world, giving an exotic appeal. The Jalapeno Flavour is a clear colourless flavouring with a medium level of heat and offers a warm, slightly pungent, and tangy flavour with subtle earthy undertone. Most common applications of Jalapeno Flavour include dips, salsa, sauces, seasonings, chips, snacks.

Spicy Jalapeno Flavour
The Spicy Jalapeno Flavour, is a deep red flavoring ingredient, that has notes of Jalapeno but also offers a higher level of heat and pungency. Most common applications of Jalapeno Flavour include dips, salsa, sauces, seasonings, chips, snacks.

Habanero Chilli Flavour
The Habanero Chilli Flavour is hot, spicy and aromatic. With deep red colour, this natural Habanero Flavour provides an intense fiery heat to food products. Most common applications include hot sauces, salsa, marinades, seasonings.

BBQ Habanero Flavour
The BBQ Habanero Flavour delivers the heat and spice of Habanero Flavour with smoky undertones. Most common applications include hot sauces, salsa, marinades, seasonings.

Ghost Pepper/Bhut Jolokia Flavour
The Ghost Pepper Flavour offers an intensely spicy taste to food products. The Ghose Pepper Flavour is twice as spicy as the Habanero Chilli Flavour. Most common applications include seasonings, sauces, RTE/RTC.

Akbari Chilli Flavour
The Akbari Chilli Flavour is amongst the hottest chilli flavours. With high levels of heat and unique aromatic profile, even a minute dosage of Akbari Chilli Flavour can make food products intensely spicy. Most common applications include hot sauces and seasonings.

Cayenne Pepper Flavour
The Cayenne Pepper Flavour is a moderately spicy ingredient for food products. Most common applications include sauces, cooking spices, seasonings, snacks.

Chipotle Pepper Flavour
The Chipotle Pepper flavour is a blended aromatic flavouring ingredient, providing the spice of jalapenos peppers, with smoky profiles. The deep red coloured Chipotle Pepper Flavour is a popular ingredient in salad dressings and sauces. Most common applications include mayonnaise, sauces, dips, seasonings and snacks.

Peri Peri Flavour
The Peri Peri Flavour is a peppery, pungent, spiced, mildly tangy, blended natural flavouring, that has wide applications in the food industry. Most common applications include sauces, seasonings, snacks.

Green Chilli Flavour
The Green Chilli Flavour is a deep green-coloured natural flavouring. With fresh undertones, the green chilli flavour delivers a high pungency to food products. Most common applications include sauces, seasonings, premixes and buttermilk.

Pickled Chilli Flavour
The Pickled Chilli Flavour has a taste profile of sundried red chillies, balanced with notes of mustard, fenugreek, and mixed spices. Most common applications include pickles, seasonings, snacks.

Gochujang Flavour
The Gochujang Flavour has a hot spicy and fermented chilli aroma and taste. This is a blended natural flavour, with undertones of onion and garlic. Most common applications include hot sauces, noodles, seasonings.

Tabasco Red Chilli Pepper Flavour
The Tabasco Red Chilli Pepper Flavour infuses a hot, intense, pungent and warm smoky taste & aromatic profile to food products. Most common applications include hot sauces and seasonings.

Tabasco Green Chilli Pepper Flavour
The Tabasco Green Chilli Pepper Flavour brings in the taste of Tabasco Red Chilli Pepper, with classic freshness of green chillies. Most common applications include sauces, seasonings, spice blends.

Bird's Eye Chilli Flavour
The Bird's Eye Chilli Flavour is around 10 times hotter than the Jalapeno Flavour, and slightly milder than Habanero Chilli Flavour. Most common applications include sauces, seasonings, spice blends.

Manufacturer of Chilli Flavours

United Group of Food Consultants, headquarted in Delhi, India, is a manufacturer of natural and NI chilli flavours, along with 7000+ other variants, for food, pharma, nutraceutical industries.

For further questions and enquiries, you can get in touch with our Flavour Specialists at +91 98186 28222