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Each year, flavor trends emerge, with a recurring theme being the rising demand for clean flavors devoid of unfamiliar or artificial chemicals

How Fermented Flavors Tap into Consumer Desire for Natural, Clean Tastes

This Flavorcon 2024 session by senior innovation scientist, Suja Senan, Ph.D., discusses fermentation and how novel machine-learning approaches.

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Grapefruit: the 'Forbidden' Fruit

The most recent addition to the citrus family, the grapefruit was relatively unknown to both Eastern and Western civilizations until its discovery in Barbados in 1750. Since then, it has spread to tropical and sub-tropical regions throughout the Western Hemisphere, and is renowned for its distinctive, sweet-sour flavor. Here, the authors review the similarities between the grapefruit and its larger ancestor, the pummelo, and examine grapefruit oil components and their distinct flavor profiles.

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F&F Literature Review: Fragrance Release

Recent studies in biotechnology and genetic disposition are shining a light on why consumers crave the F&F products that they do.

Spray Drying of Food Flavors—V

Factors influencing shelf-life of encapsulated orange peel oil. This study investigated tbe influence of trace pro-oxidants (e.g., copper and iron), surface oil, entrapped air and absolute density on the shelf-life of spray dried single fold orange peel oil.

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Cannabis Concentrates: An Untapped Market for Flavorings

While cannabis edibles might seem like the most obvious market for flavorists to make a play for, concentrate products offer a new space for new and innovative flavoring suppliers.

Reflections of a Retired Flavorist Before He Forgets: Lime

Surprisingly, Oil Limes, Distilled, is not a true natural product but results from the action of the acidic juice on the original essential oil. It is produced by comminuting the whole lime and distilling off the altered essential oil.

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Flavor Bites: Nerolidol

Although subtle, nerolidol’s aroma is highly substantive and works to add depth to more volatile floral notes in a very wide range of flavors.

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Flavor Bites: Xylenols

Used with caution, the impactful xylenol family of ingredients provides burnt odor characters to a range of coffee, seafood, whisky and other flavor applications.

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Flavor Bites: Acetal

With a similar odor profile to acetaldehyde, acetal’s odor is less pungent and adds freshness to a wide variety of profiles, especially juicy orange flavors.

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Flavor Bites: Geraniol

The rose character of geraniol is very bright and fragrant but it also possesses considerable depth, which is especially helpful in flavors.

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Flavor Bites: Geranyl acetate

Containing a dominant rose note underlaid with fruity nuances, geranyl acetate is ideal for a range of floral, citrus, tropical fruit, berry and other flavor applications.

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Flavor Bites: Hexyl acetate

Combining the attractive characteristics of pear and banana, this ingredient works well together with several hexyl esters, including hexyl butyrate and hexanoate.

Flavoring with Citrus Oils

Hopefully I have shown that citrus oils are extremely important for the flavoring of foods and beverages and that their consumption is growing steadily at more than 3% per year. On the other hand, the demands for performance can be expected to become more strict, particularly as far as stability and purity are concerned.

A superfood is one considered to be unexpectedly high in rarer nutrients, and very dense in terms of nutrients per square inch.

Superfood Trends For 2021

Immunity concerns in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic have sparked renewed interest in superfoods for their potential functional benefits.

Lime Oils from Mexico

We believe that this year Mexican lime oil production will reach 3,000 drums. No stock seems to be available in Mexico from last year’s production; however, some plants are already turning out a substantial amount of product.

Distillation Systems for Citrus Separations

Pope Scientific offers Wiped-Film Still technology to separate heatsensitive citrus oils, flavors and related substances.

This month's editor's note reflects upon the incredible changes of the past 12 months.

The Fruits of Our Labor

This month's editor's note reflects upon the incredible changes of the past 12 months.

A fair number of this month’s ingredients feature festive fruity flavors.

Organoleptic Characteristics of Flavor Materials

This month’s column features discussions on linalool oxide, piperonyl acetate, lemon oil and more.

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