Flavour supplier and manufacturer for Malaysia
One sip of teh tarik and a Malaysian shopper knows whether it tastes right. VKA® is a flavour supplier for Malaysian food and beverage brands. We have created flavours across Asia since 1971 and make them in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.
Flavour, colour and texture, made to work together
A consumer tastes more than the flavour. Colour sets the expectation before the first bite, texture decides how the taste arrives, and your base has to carry both to the end of its shelf life. We supply the flavour, colour and texture, and we test them together in your product.
Flavour portfolios
Essences, core tastes, culinary, colours and textures. Each starts from a taste your consumer already knows and gives it character and mouthfeel.
Browse portfoliosCustom flavour development
A flavour that tastes right in the lab can fade in a retort or a hot fill. A flavourist builds your profile, application technologists test it in your product and your process, and a sensory panel tastes it against your brief before anything scales.
See our capabilitiesTaste technologies and reduction
Cutting sugar, salt or fat changes how a product tastes as well as what the label says. Our reduction systems, EssenceLock encapsulation, FreshSeal vacuum-sealed powders and TasteGuard preservation keep the pleasure people buy it for.
Explore innovationSolutions by application
A drink, a savoury snack and a seasoning each ask a flavour to do a different job, so our application work starts from how each category is made and eaten.
See solutionsA plant in Johor for the Malaysian market
Our Malaysian plant is in Johor. It supplies food flavourings to customers in Malaysia and supports supply across the region, alongside our plants in Singapore and Australia.
Flavours for Malaysia are created at our headquarters in Singapore, where our flavourists, application technologists and sensory panel work together, so a brief from Kuala Lumpur or Penang reaches the same people as any other.
A halal flavour supplier for Malaysia, certified by MUIS and BPJPH
VKA is MUIS and BPJPH halal-certified. Alcohol carriers and animal-derived inputs are common in conventional flavour systems, so we build toward halal from the first sample, and the halal scope documents can come with it.
Read our Malaysia halal guideWhat the Food Regulations 1985 ask of a flavouring
Malaysian rules treat a flavouring one way on your product's ingredient list and another on the package it arrives in. Both matter before the artwork is signed off.
On your product's ingredient list, a flavouring substance is declared by its functional class only (Food Regulations 1985, reg 11(2A)).
A package of flavouring that is imported, manufactured, advertised for sale or sold must carry its chemical name or INS number followed by the words as permitted and the type of food additive (for a flavouring substance, the common name or an appropriate designation can replace the chemical name), directions for use, and the words For Food Use, or words of the same meaning, close to that name or number (Food Regulations 1985, reg 19(6)).
Source: Food Regulations 1985, reg 19(6)
Permitted flavouring substances are those listed in FEMA GRAS or the Codex flavourings list (CAC/MISC 6), plus natural flavouring substances in their raw state or traditionally prepared (Food Regulations 1985, reg 22(3)).
Source: Food Regulations 1985, reg 22(3)
Adding a flavouring substance to food is prohibited except where the Regulations permit it, and the substances in Table I of the Eighth Schedule may not be added to food at all (Food Regulations 1985, reg 22(4)-(5)).
From the drink in hand to the snack in the bag
We create food flavourings for beverages, dairy, bakery, confectionery, savoury and snacks, in natural, nature-identical and artificial forms, with the colours, taste technologies and reduction systems that finish a product.
The documents that travel with your sample
Your QA and regulatory teams need more than a taste. Each sample can come with the documents they use to approve a flavour.
- specification and safety data sheets
- certificates of analysis
- allergen and composition statements
- halal scope documents
- a certificate of free sale where your importer asks for one
Working with VKA in Malaysia
Does VKA manufacture flavours in Malaysia?
Yes. Our plant in Johor serves the Malaysian market, and flavours for Malaysia are created at our headquarters in Singapore.
Can you develop a custom flavour for our product?
Yes. That is the core of our work. A flavourist builds the profile, our application lab tests it in your actual product, and a sensory panel judges it against your brief before it scales to production.
Are VKA's flavours halal-certified?
VKA is MUIS and BPJPH halal-certified. The halal scope documents can come with your sample, so your team can check them against the product.
Which food and beverage categories do you supply?
Beverages, dairy, bakery, confectionery, savoury and snacks.
What formats do the flavours come in?
Liquid, powder and emulsion. Format decides how a flavour survives heat, how it disperses and how long it holds, so we choose it for the step in your process where the flavour goes in.
How do I request a flavour sample?
Send us a brief: what you are making, how it should taste, the format, the markets and the volumes, and the process the flavour has to survive. We send back a sample with its documentation, so you can taste it in your own product.
Malaysia halal guides
Send us a brief and we will send a sample
Tell us what you are making and how it should taste. A flavourist will take it from there.