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Section: Flavor > Regulatory & Research

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Organoleptic Characteristics of Flavor Materials: February 2016

In this monthly column, senior flavorist Judith Michalski describes the odor, taste and suggested applications for several materials. This edition features discussions on honey distillate organic, saffron resinoid, anisyl acetate natural, osmanthus absolute and more.

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Sweet Techniques to Modify Flavor

While sugar reduction is on the rise, this trend goes above and beyond sweet nothings—instead, companies are producing sweet somethings with solutions to keep flavors from being modified.

Patent Picks—Sweet and Savory

Patent Picks are compiled by the editors from publicly available sources. The present inventions feature developments related to sweet and savory tastes.

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Sweet Solutions for Medicine Flavoring

As natural flavors and digital technologies push flavoring for medication forward, the flavorist must continue to address bitterness in base ingredients and create innovative, market-ready taste solutions.

The Sweet Smell of Standards

We can conclude with confidence that the demand for new international standards in the field of essential oils will continue to grow. We need such standards to facilitate world trade and to promote the quality of the products.

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.

Saccharin—the sweet and sour saga

The focus on saccharin highlights the basic deficiencies in the criteria by which food ingredients are evaluated for safety, particularly when the spector of cancer hangs overhead. The existing evaluation of all aspects of the safety of saccharin has caused an improvement in the safety evaluation proceedings and the benefits have impacted throughout the food industry, its regulators, and the scientific disciplines they rely upon.

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Progress in Essential Oils: Sweet Fennel Oil and Extract

In this column, Brian M. Lawrence reviews the composition of sweet fennel oil and extract as found by various researchers. For example, a commercial sample of sweet fennel oil was screened for its anti-platelet activity by Tognolini et al. (2006) and Guerini et al. (2006) using GC-FID and GC/MS. Results are reported herein.

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