Taste sensation: Wacky flavours driving innovation and profits
By: Hugh Westbrook | 2 August 2004
Garlic candy, bacon and egg ice-cream, chilli chocolate… consumers are getting more daring, and challenging flavour combinations are gaining ground. Pushing the envelope on exotic flavours can mean big profits for innovative producers. Hugh Westbrook investigates how today's joke can become tomorrow's dinner.
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Garlic candy, bacon and egg ice-cream, chilli chocolate… consumers are getting more daring, and challenging flavour combinations are gaining ground. Pushing the envelope on exotic flavours can mean big profits for innovative producers. Hugh Westbrook investigates how today's joke can become tomorrow's dinner.

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