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Mar 26, 2026
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Mar 26, 2027
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FLAVOR DEVELOPMENT

Bickford Flavors

Bickford Flavors is a 105-year-old, family-owned flavoring company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The company offers over 260 stock and custom kosher-certified flavors formulated specifically to be free of added alcohol, salt, sugar, preservatives, GMOs, synthetic dyes, and artificial ingredients. Bickford has a dedicated nutraceutical flavoring vertical, providing natural flavoring solutions for supplement manufacturers working with powders, tablets, gummies, and liquid supplements. The company publishes educational content on selecting flavor profiles for nutraceutical products. Regulatory documents including FEMA GRAS documentation are available upon request for gallon-size and larger orders. Bickford also serves the baking, beverage, confectionery, and food service industries.

Cleveland, Ohio

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§1Editorial assessment

Bickford Flavors is a 105-year-old, family-owned flavoring company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The company offers over 260 stock and custom kosher-certified flavors formulated specifically to be free of added alcohol, salt, sugar, preservatives, GMOs, synthetic dyes, and artificial ingredients. Bickford has a dedicated nutraceutical flavoring vertical, providing natural flavoring solutions for supplement manufacturers working with powders, tablets, gummies, and liquid supplements. The company publishes educational content on selecting flavor profiles for nutraceutical products. Regulatory documents including FEMA GRAS documentation are available upon request for gallon-size and larger orders. Bickford also serves the baking, beverage, confectionery, and food service industries.

§2Six-gate readout

Six gates we apply before any name appears in the directory. Each gate is auto-derived from public evidence on this profile.

Evidence: warn.
Provenance: miss.
Disclosure: pass.
Freshness: pass.
Challenge: pass.
Abstention: miss.

§3Inspection history

§4Certifications

0 of 1 certification independently confirmed. What this means

§5Capability matrix

PRODUCT TYPES
Natural Flavors · Extracts · Custom Flavors · Kosher-Certified Flavors
CAPABILITIES
Nutraceutical Flavor Development · Custom Flavor Formulation · Natural and Organic Flavoring · 260+ Stock Flavors · Kosher Certification · FEMA GRAS Documentation Available

§6Sources

Dietary supplement manufacturers must comply with 21 CFR Part 111 (Current Good Manufacturing Practice for dietary supplements). This includes requirements for personnel, facilities, equipment, production, laboratory operations, and record-keeping.

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For the gate-by-gate readout that produces this vendor's score, see our six-gate scoring readout. The connection map between Bickford Flavors and other vendors, capabilities, and certifications is in the manufacturer atlas.

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