Virginia Dare's history highlights innovation, sustainability
Flavor company's portfolio hits on natural and organic trends
Virginia Dare is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based flavor and extract company originally founded in 1835. The company evolved into the Virginia Dare Extract Co. in 1923, with a focus on creating and supplying flavors for the food and beverage, health and wellness, nutritional product, sweet goods, dairy, and pharmaceutical and oral care industries.
Virginia Dare is well-known for its much sought after range of high-quality vanilla products. It has an established a sustainable vanilla initiative in Madagascar, which greatly benefits the farmers growing the company’s supply of the best vanilla beans.