Fruit flavor base mix

submitted almost 7 years ago by coloradohikingadvice

Something I have noticed from lurking in the sub and reading through juice recipes on atf and elr is that when you want to get a good whole fruit flavor you often need multiple different types of that fruit to make it work. I was wondering if people here have base combinations that they start with. The common one I noticed is tfa strawberry and strawberry ripe. So, when you start a mix with the end goal of strawberry being the main flavor do you have a combo of types and percentages that are your go to? Do you use the same mix at lower percentages when you want it to be a background flavor or does your combination change completely? Do you have conditions like whether its going in a fruity mix v going into a bakery?

I would love to have some good starting points of combinations that people think make the best orange, strawberry, grape, apple, etc.

I did some searching and couldn't find any posts like this. If it does exist I would love to be pointed in the right direction. Cheers!

edit: After some suggested search terms I found a couple posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/9pta1g/trinities/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/6wrp6l/dont_take_this_flavor_of_the_week_for_granite/

Still hoping to get more input, but I thought I would share my findings.

Comments

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by imNAchogrlalmost 7 years agoKooky

Mix life is another great weekly YT pod and the ever loving DiYorDie podcast has soo many useful vids and a website w a plethora of great info and also videos....;)

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by coloradohikingadvicealmost 7 years ago

I tried looking at the diyordie site before, but I got a little overwhelmed. I'll give it an other look. Thank you!

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by sadistic_tendenciesalmost 7 years ago

A search for "Stones", "Bases" or "Trinity(ies)" may yield some useful info

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by coloradohikingadvicealmost 7 years ago

I tried bases, but I'll try the others. Thanks for the suggestion.

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by OdieDoodahalmost 7 years agoThe Real MVP

Here's a good place to start -> FOTW - Stones

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by coloradohikingadvicealmost 7 years ago

Thank you. I found that one and added it to the post in an edit. That is a term I hadn't heard before today.

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by mlNikonalmost 7 years ago

For strawberry, I use the Daveberry trinity which is a 321 combo of Inw stb shisha, FA red touch, and jf sweet stb. Blueberry, I use the holy trinity combo of Fw bb, tfa bb extra with a touch of Fa bilberry. Pineapple combo that's good is cap golden Pineapple with some Inw Pineapple. For peaches, although it depends on what you want I like Flv peach, FA peach and TFA nectarine. There are so many different combos /layers people use, good luck. Oh one more, for a Raspberry Fa Raspberry and inw Raspberry shisha is a good combo.

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by coloradohikingadvicealmost 7 years ago

Excuse my noob question, but whe you say "321 combo" does that mean 3 parts inw, 2 parts fa, 1 part jf?

On the other mixes do you have base starting percentages you work off of?

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. This is the kind of thing I was looking for(as well as the other input I have received on how to search this topic). I appreciate you sharing your experience.

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by penatbateralmost 7 years ago

Yep. But the blueberry holy trinity uses a diff percentage. I can't remember it now but it's a pretty popular base.

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by morefiendalmost 7 years ago

If I remember right, it's 3 TFA Blueberry Extra, 2 FW Blueberry, and 0.5 FA Bilberry.

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by coloradohikingadvicealmost 7 years ago

Thank you!

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by mlNikonalmost 7 years ago

Yeah 3% 2% 1% is a good ratio. You can play with it to get it how you like but that's a good starting point.

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by RealNitrogenalmost 7 years ago

For strawberry fruity juices, I always mix a 3:2 ratio of TPA strawberry ripe to CAP strawberry sweet. For desserts, I ditch the sweet and up the ripe concentration. I have tried lower sweet ratios in desserts, but it was unsatisfactory.

For orange, I would get orange, tangerine, mandarin orange (whatever oranges you can find). I know that FA Fuji apple has good reviews. Currently steeping a juice with it. Excited to see how it tastes

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by coloradohikingadvicealmost 7 years ago

I just started an orange. I put together fw blood orange, shisha orange, cap juicy orange, and cap sweet tangerine. It tastes of orange, but it has something kind of harsh at the end. I'm going to give it more time to steep and see if it mellows.

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by sadistic_tendenciesalmost 7 years ago

Have you done single flavor tests on all of those?

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by coloradohikingadvicealmost 7 years ago

I am doing single flavor test currently. My orange mix was just a guess based on flavor reviews and sniff/drop testing. Honestly, I expected it to be trash, but I think I'll have no problem pushing through the 15ml I mixed. I know it's jumping the gun a bit to start trying to combine when I haven't finished testing them individually, but I am impatient and wanted to get started using other people's suggestions while I am trying to work out what I like. It's a little basacward, but I'm kind of dumb like that. I tend to try and gather information, then take my own stab at it(based on how I like to cook and problem solve). This method has produced both beautiful and disastrous results in my life.