FOOD TECHNOLOGY INTELLIGENCE INC.
     

 

FTI REPORT R-07:

ADVANCES IN FLAVOR AND
AROMA TECHNOLOGIES

Revised & Updated for 2006

To help flavorists and product developers learn about new technologies that will help them combat flavor-related product challenges, Food Technology Intelligence Inc. has revised and updated the report Advances in Flavor and Aroma Technologies . The report analyzes more than 40 flavor and aroma developments that have taken place at company, academic and government research labs around the world. This comprehensive report will let you see firsthand technologies that you can harness to optimize your flavor-related product development efforts.

Some of the processes, techniques and products examined in the report are under development and have commercial potential. Others have completed development, and their developers are looking to license the technology or collaborate in other ways to commercialize it. Yet others already are commercially available. The successful development and marketing of more nutritious and healthy foods, and the optimal processing of products to make them microbiologically as safe as possible, are without argument two major challenges currently facing the food industry. However, while these are major concerns, a product’s flavor also plays a significant role in its acceptance by consumers. Every day, flavorists, product developers and others are challenged to incorporate the most attractive flavors and aromas into products. Their goal: to attract the attention of consumers so that they purchase their products again and again.

Flavor is dynamic and elusive. The appealing aroma and flavor of freshly baked products can be lost in a day. It is important to harness flavors and aromas and incorporate them into products to make them appear fresh, wholesome and attractive to consumers for as long as possible. Just like some other compounds, flavors will react and escape from products. Once a product is on the store shelf, oxidation, hydrolysis and other processes may cause it to lose its desired attributes and develop off-flavors. Off-flavors are flavors too, and are another challenge facing product developers.

In Advances in Flavor and Aroma Technologies you’ll learn about several technologies, including:

• A less-expensive concentrated butter flavor that is synthesized from lactic acid. Collaborative partners are

sought to facilitate commercial development.

• Enzymes that function in microaqueous media that could lead to the development of new flavors.

• An artificial nose that uses a neural network to analyze aromas. Industrial support is being sought to further its development. Advances in Flavor and Aroma Technologies reviews important technological developments in the field, discussing their potential applications and status of development. You’ll be able to take advantage of these new technologies through licensing or other arrangements. Contact information is provided for key researchers, enabling you to contact the experts with whom you can collaborate on innovative research.

Order Advances in Flavor and Aroma Technologies today and tap into the innovations that will help you meet your product development objectives.

Advances in Flavor and Aroma Technologies, Report R-07, Revised 2006, 127 pp., $265/copy; outside North America add $20/copy for postage and handling. New Jersey orders add 6% sales tax. Also available electronically; contact publisher for details.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

1. Introduction

The Promise of New Technologies

Understanding Flavor Perception

The Sweetness Response

2. Analysis of New Technologies

Enzyme Systems
  • Enzymes in Microaqueous Media
  • Enzymatic Route to Flavors
  • Immobilized Enzymes for Cheese Flavor
Sweeteners
  • Sweetener Sourced from Corn
  • A Shift on the Horizon
  • Protein Sweetener Isolated
Honey
  • Honey Facilitates Pasta Processing
  • Honey for Extruded Products
  • Honey for Breads
  • Honey Peanut Butter
Beverages
  • Processing Flavored Milks
  • Enhancing Skim Milk Aroma and Flavor
  • Intensified Natural Beer Flavoring
  • Roasting Temperature Influences Coffee Flavor
Fruit
  • Pawpaw as Fat Substitute in Baked Goods
  • Dried Plums and Reduced-fat Baking
  • Controlling Hormone Levels in Tomatoes
  • The Chokeberry Alternative
  • Precursor Atmosphere Technology

Aroma Analysis

  • Design and Build an Electronic Nose
  • Electronic Noses and Ripe Fruit
  • Artificial Mouth Eliminates Guesswork
  • Neural Networks Optimize Artificial Noses
  • Electronic Nose, Quantitative Measures

Lipids

  • Fatty Foods Trigger Taste Buds
  • Lipids Impact Flavors
  • Enhance Cooked Turkey Quality

Cheese Flavor

  • Improve Cheese Flavor Development
  • High Pressure and Color, Flavor
  • Advances in Cheese Processing
  • Expanding the Flavor of Cheese
  • Brevibacteria and Cheddar Cheese

Fatty Acids

  • Fatty Acid Composition of Oils
  • Free Fatty Acids and Cheese Flavor

Meat Flavor

  • Enhance Flavor, Texture of Low-salt Meat
  • Anka Rice, Nitrate and Roast Beef
  • Improve Flavor of Fermented Meats

Use Superheated Water for Flavors

Perceiving Flavor of Dietary Fats

Improving Butter, Milkfat Fractions

Investigate Pervaporation Technology

Antioxidants Improve Butteroil in Ice Cream

Make Lower-fat Chocolate Tastier

Optimize the Maillard Reaction

Compare Volatiles in Frankfurters

More Interest in Authentic, Fusion Foods

Encapsulate Flavors

Supercritical Technology and Cheese

Butter Flavor from Lactic Acid

Starch Granules Carry Flavor

Profiling Primary Flavors

3. Patents

 

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