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Microwavable Foods Satisfy Need for Speed and Palatability

Food processors, ingredient vendors, and packaging suppliers are teaming up to meet the demands of on-the-go consumers who want quick food preparation and superior taste and texture....

For the whole article from Food Technology - January 2005 Click Here
 
 

Food Packaging: Materials & Containers

Follow your nose to where flavor engineering and packaging meet. Horsham, PA-based provider of weight management products and services NutriSystem has introduced Aquaescents, a new weight loss aid that is the first commercial application of ScentSational Technologies’ CompelAroma...

For the whole article from Food Engineering - January 2005 Click Here
 
 

Aroma opens the door to a new dimension in produce marketing

As packaging is increasingly used in the fresh produce industry, consumers’ sense of smell is eliminated as a marketing issue. But ScentSational Technologies, based in the Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown, PA, is offering a new packaging technology...

For the whole article from Tad Thompson from The Produce News - January 2005 Click Here
 
 

Closure Adds 'Flavor' to bottled water

NutriSystem, a leading marketer of weight management products, recommends that users of its products drink at last eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily to help flush out toxins produced when body chemistry changes as weight is lost...

For the whole article from Brand Packaging - 2005 Click Here
 
 

Using Scent As A Purchase Motivator

A pleasing aroma on packaging can strike an emotional chord with consumers and give your brand an edge over its competitors.
Brand marketers can use many cues on packaging to connect emotionally with consumers. But they may be overlooking a powerful yet under-used signal: scent.

For the whole article by Bob Swientek Click Here
 
 

Aroma-enhanced packaging: The last frontier

Horsham, PA-based provider of weight-management products and services, NutriSystem, Inc. has brought "scent science" to the weight-loss industry with its introduction of the Aquaescents(TM) water bottle. Representing the first commercial application of ScentSational Technologies'...

For the whole article from PACKAGING DIGEST - September 2004 Click Here
 
 

NutriSystem and ScentSational Deploy Aromatic Packages
That Use Tempting Flavor Technology Both Inside and Out

NutriSystem, a diet, vitamin, and nutritional product company in Horsham, Pa., introduced Aquaescents, a powerful new weight loss aid employing ScentSational Technologies' CompelAroma, Encapsulated Aroma Release technology. This technology works in several ways, tempting consumers with...

For the whole article from Package Design Magazine - Lyons Media, Inc. Click Here
 
 

Aroma-Filled Closures

Strawberry Banana, Tutti-Frutti, Toasted Marshmallow, Strawberry Cheesecake... Will a consumer be able to determine the flavor in his mouth if he holds his nose and closes his eyes? According to Steve Landau, chief technology officer and chairman of ScentSational Technologies, Jenkintown, Pa., "The consumer will not be able to taste the flavor, because there is a very strong relationship between smell and taste. In fact, what most people perceive as "taste" actually results from...

For the whole article from Jenny Welbel - Beverage Industry - Stagnito Communications Click Here
 
 

NutriSystem to Deploy Compelling, Diet Enhancing Package Flavor Technology

NutriSystem, Horsham, Pennsylvania (
www.nutrisystem.com) is introducing Aquaescents, a powerful new weight loss aid employing ScentSational Technologies' CompelAroma™, Encapsulated Aroma Release™ technology. CompelAroma™ technology allows food and beverage marketers to differentiate brands by encapsulating flavors...

For the whole article from Harry Walsh Click Here
 
 

Focus: Packaging: Looking for brand loyalty? Your nose knows the way.

Remember the smell of your mother’s home-baked chocolate chip cookies or grandma’s spice rack? One firm is counting on memory-inducing scents to keep consumers buying its products...

For the whole article from Clare Goldsberry Click Here
 
 

US military sniffs out active packaging technologies

A sweet smelling oatmeal bowl and fruit-scented bottle caps could entice Natick, which develops non artillery equipment for the US army, to embark on a project for aromatic packaging...

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Pira International Click Here

Beverage companies tests flavour-releasing packaging

A new aroma and flavour-releasing technology for packaging is being tested in consumer trials in bottled water and nutritional food packaging applications in the US...

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Pira International Click Here

Packaging companies join flavour and aroma-releasing packaging project

ScentSational Technologies in the US, which is developing flavour and aroma-releasing packaging, reveals it has formed strategic partnerships with two packaging companies to help commercialise its technology...

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Pira International Click Here

Smell of success

Olfactory packaging seems like an important next step, cementing brand identity and demonstrating product quality. But things are not necessarily so rosy. Nikki Preston questions how the technology works and how seriously it will be adopted...

For the whole article from Nikki Preston at
Pira International Click Here
 
 

Technology Brings New Aroma Dimension to Thermoformed Packages

After experiencing an intense aroma, most brand-marketing executives have probably at least once thought, "if only I could package that aroma." Now, Fabri-kal (Kalamazoo, MI) a leading thermoformer of polypropylene cups, tubs and bowls, is offering an answer to the "if only."

For the whole article from FoodManufacturing® Click Here
 
 

New Technology Enhances Packaging's Sensory Effect

ScentSational Technologies is introducing CompelAroma™ — a proprietary technology utilizing encapsulated flavor and aroma release. CompelAroma™ is an advanced approach to brand-building. CompelAroma™ compels consumers to use brands over and over again by...

For the whole article from Flexible Packaging Click Here
 
 

Win By A Nose

ScentSational Technologies is adding aroma and flavours into packaging with its new CompelAroma™ technology.

FDA approved food flavours are integrated during manufacturing and allow aromas to be slowly and uniformly released into the packaged product during its life or released when a package is opened.

For the whole article from Plastic In Packaging Click Here

 
 

Drinking In The Features

Sports drinks... vitamin-enhanced water... vanilla-flavored cola. Beverage companies strive for innovation and new products. This must be reflected in the packaging. Beverage manufacturers are working to differentiate their products on the shelf.

For the whole article from FLEXO Magazine Click Here
 
 

An Army Travels on Its Stomach

The food may still taste like road kill. But if a new program from the U.S. Army works out, GIs' rations won't smell quite so bad. The Natick Soldier Center is working on a project to make rations more palatable to grunts by embedding savory aromas into the food's packaging. If the food smells better, the thinking goes, the soldiers will be more likely to eat their MREs, or Meals, Ready to Eat, and will be better able to carry out their grueling tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

For the whole article by Noah Shachtman Click Here
 
 

Top it off

No longer content with ordinary packages that simply hold liquid for consumption, consumers today are looking for a package that delivers added convenience and safety. This need, of course, extends to beverage closures as well. Consumer demand is driving beverage companies to seek out closures that provide improved tamper evidence and child-resistant safety, easier-to-open caps and even closures that improve product taste.

For the whole article by Heather Todd Click Here
 
 

Aroma-added packaging aims to allure you

Aug 04, 2003 (The Christian Science Monitor via COMTEX) -- The secret to boosting troop morale in Iraq, say US military officials, might soon be found inside the metallic foil of a package of beef stew. And later, similar packages may appear on supermarket shelves. While nation building and peacekeeping are at the top of the military's agenda in Iraq, the Army is also mounting an effort to make soldiers' food tastier.

For the whole article by Noel C. Paul Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Click Here
 
 

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