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Flavor Bites: cis-3-Hexenol

Covering an exceptionally wide range of flavors, moderation is essential when using cis-3-Hexenol in formulations.

A Unique Mentha Aquatica Mint For Flavor

The essential oil from peppermint, Mentha x piperita L., is one of the most widely used oils by the flavor industry for mint flavoring. However, abundant literature and experts’ observations report the varying composition and organoleptic profiles of peppermint oils according to the region of production, climatic variation and harvest date.1-3

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Organoleptic Characteristics of Flavor Materials: March 2016

This month’s column features the live Flavorcon session held on November 15, 2015. Normally for each material, only common descriptors are listed. For this issue, however, all remarks have been included to show the full range of perceptions from the panel and audience.

Volatile Release from Mint-Flavored Sweets

In this paper we report results from instrumental analysis of menthol and menthone in the breath of individuals eating a range of mint-flavored sweets. These results demonstrate the reproducibility of breath volatile analysis for assessing the aroma-release characteristics of mint-flavored products.

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Beyond the Peel: Analysis of Pink Grapefruit Juice

There is very little differences between the peel oils of orange and grapefruit. Both of them contain pinenes and limonene as their major constituents and have very similar analytical profiles. Pink grapefruit juice’s characterizing components proved to show a few analytical surprises.

Bell Flavors & Fragrances featured a rotaing menu featuring a pizza application. On June 4, they featured a Tunisian Date Pizza, formulated with its ingredients.

Finding a Way Forward: IFT19 Looks to the Future of Food and Flavor

As the food and flavor industries brace for uncertain times ahead, food and flavor professionals met at the 2019 Institute of Food Technologists conference to discuss possible solutions and plans for the future.

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The Mint Condition in Oral Care

Much of the innovation in the area came in the way of active ingredients outside of the flavor, and flavor innovation itself was limited. More recently, however, it looks like the landscape is changing.

Inside Flavors: Real Time Volatile Flavor Release Monitoring and its Flavor/Food Application Using Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry

Understanding how aroma compounds interact with and are released from simple and complex foods. Flavors and fragrances usually are complex mixtures of molecules with different physical properties, including volatility, fat solubility and sensorial characteristics, covering a wide spectrum of threshold values. They are usually present in natural extracts or final products at levels in the order of ppb to ppm.

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Flavorcon 2019 Brings Global Flavor to Cincinnati

Following a record-breaking year, Flavorcon returns to the Midwest on Nov. 11-12, 2019 at the Duke Energy Convention Center for two days of technical insight, trend and market analysis for the flavor, food and beverage industries.

Manufacturing Flavors—How the Industry Produces Uniform Flavors

Our purpose in this paper is to outline how to best carry out completely and economically the total operation of producing and shipping of our flavors. These flavors must meet the total requirements of our customers, our management and certainly pass all the analytical requirements of both our customers and our in-house quality assurance programs. Our primary intent should be that the scaled-up product very closely resembles that flavor we originally created and submitted to our customer who made the long, tedious, and expensive purchasing decision, after many hours of testing, to buy this flavor.

Flavorcon Highlights: Unusual Flavor Ingredients, Biotech and More

The debut of P&F ’s two-day flavor conference in New Jersey engaged all of the senses.

The Flavorcon expo hall is where innovation comes to life. Don't miss out on tasting, smelling and experiencing the latest and greatest the flavor industry has to offer.

Flavorcon 2024 Serves Flavor Chemists in Atlantic City

Get a taste of what’s to come as Flavorcon finally arrives to feed tastemakers’ creativity.

Flavor Properties of FEMA GRAS List 26 Flavor Chemicals

This article features an assessment of 26 GRAS ingredients released by the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA).

Allergens can sneak in from an ingredient supplier, from not properly cleaning equipment during a changeover from one allergen-containing material to another, from a labeling error or from a new supplier who has not been properly vetted.

Why Food Safety of Flavors Matters to Flavor Companies

Why and how flavor companies need to follow well-accepted food safety practices in their development and manufacture of flavor systems.

First Look: Society of Flavor Chemists Flavor Symposium 2014

Trends, history, flavor creation, regulatory issues and more.

Spray Drying of Food Flavors - 1.Theory of Flavor Retention

Research to date suggests that optimum flavor retention may be obtained by using as high infeed solids as possible, raising infeed temperature if this permits higher infeed solids levels, choosing a carrier which favors flavor retention and operating the dryer at optimum inlet and exit air temperatures. These suggestions are based on research which has generally dealt with a study of a limited number of volatiles and flavor carriers seldom or never used in the flavor industry.

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Flavor Bites: Flavor Companies—Finding the Right Fit

What are the most important factors influencing the career choices of flavorists? Large or small companies? Which is the best?

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Labeling Vanilla Flavorings and Vanilla-Flavored Foods in the U.S.

Vanilla flavorings are the only flavorings subject to a federal standard of identity. An understanding of the vanilla standard and the general flavoring labeling regulations is necessary to properly label vanilla flavorings and the foods to which they are added.

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