New Flavored Milk Innovation : Developing Date Milk Flavor Variants

Abstract

Innovation is one of the necessary conditions for a company's development and long-term success. PT. Symrise Indonesia produces innovative solutions for fragrance, flavor, natural nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients. Consumer tastes change as the taste universe expands. Date flavor has recently become a top 10 flavor trend and thus could develop more. Since milk is the most often consumed dairy product, flavored milk is one of the recommended ways for increasing milk intake. This study will incorporate date into daily consumption, as date is typically consumed only during Ramadan. The purpose of this study is to develop and find the best-flavored date milk that is acceptable according to an internal panelist test. This study analyzed 5 prototypes of date milk with different combinations of liquid flavors. 9-point hedonic and ranking tests were used to examine the preference of panelists, google forms platforms also used to conduct the profiling, and the statistics used were the descriptive statistics for evaluating the different liking score of each parameter (taste, aroma, and mouthfeel), Friedman test for analyze the significant different between prototype and preference, and PCA for the profiling. The platforms that used were google form, IBM SPSS Statistic 26, Microsoft Excel 2010, and Xlstat 2019. The results show that each prototype had its characteristics and the most preferred prototypes are combinations of date-caramel flavors. From the analysis, the p-value indicates that prototypes differ significantly in taste, aroma, and mouthfeel, which affected preference. Differences in prototype preference are affected by formulation and processing methods