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Earthy Flavour Standard
Our Earthy Flavour Standard helps train professional tasters to recognise and scale the intensity of ethyl fenchol’s character in food and beverages. Ethyl fenchol is an off-flavour with a musty, dried grass and earthy damp soil character, like damp soil or freshly dug soil. This earthy taste/taint is imparted to beverages due to poor packaging, raw materials, or finished product storage conditions.
FlavorActiV GMP flavour standards can be added to almost any liquid to impart a real flavour, off-note, or taint that’s safe to both smell and taste. With this Earthy Flavour Standard kit, you’ll be able to train your palate to recognise Earthy defects like an expert!
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
Sensory Terms
– Freshly dug earth
– Soil
– Damp earth
– Earthy coffee
Cause of the Earthy Flavour
This earth-flavour taint is imparted to beverages due to poor storage conditions of packaging, raw materials, or finished products.
2-ethyl fenchol is created by bacteria within water and damp soil.
2-ethyl fenchol can migrate through packaging during storage in damp, dark areas. Dirty or insufficiently cleaned equipment can also contaminate raw water, which is then passed onto the final product.
In sensory analysis, FlavorActiV’s Earthy flavour standard is a sensory reference often used to train taste panels and quality control teams to identify earthy notes in food, beverages, and other products. Earthy notes can be either desirable or off-putting, depending on the context; for instance, they may enhance the complexity of wine but be considered a defect in drinking water.
Other Information
Beer Flavour Wheel Number: 0841
Flavour Level: This earthy taste/taint – can occur at many levels.
Recommended flavour standard / sensory reference standard of: the American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) and the European Brewing Chemists (EBC)
FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Standards
Only Pharmaceutical Quality GMP Flavour Standards provide sufficient quality for professional sensory panels to train and validate with.
We produce encapsulated GMP (Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice) Flavour Standards that are safe to both smell and drink. The compounds within our capsules impart the aroma, taste and mouthfeel of a specific defect or positive flavour into a beverage for the purposes of taster training, calibration and quality control.
Our individual flavour GMP Flavour Standards are sold by flavour, each flavour pack contains 5 capsules, each separately blister packaged. Our sensory kits contain a mixture of flavours, each separately blister packaged, read the product description for flavour details.
We ship globally, and have over 20 years of experience at it. Our GMP Pharmaceutical Flavour Standards are produced to the highest standards, and as such, their shelf-life is strong and their quality consistent.
FlavorActiV’s flavour centre is the world’s only pharmaceutically run facility dedicated to the production of flavour reference standards. The Flavour Centre is a state-of-the-art facility housed within the campus of world-renowned Quay Pharma near Liverpool in the U.K.
The Flavour Centre was designed by FlavorActiV from the ground up at the direct request of global customers as they looked to move away from inferior food grade ‘certified flavour standards’ to GMP Pharma, a standard that ensures safe, stable, traceable, consistent and long shelf-life products.
All FlavorActiV’s industry-leading encapsulated flavour standards are manufactured following GMP at our Flavour Centre. All aspects of manufacture are overseen by Quay Pharma who are audited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory agency (MHRA). We also welcome customer audits.
Only FlavorActiV GMP flavour standard capsules bear our mark of authenticity.
We brand each of our capsules so that our customers know they’re getting the Pharmaceutical GMP Quality that only FlavorActiV provide.
Industry leading packaging and shelf-life
FlavorActiV flavour standards are blister packaged, which extends shelf-life and protects capsules from potential contamination. The average shelf-life of FlavorActiV flavour standards is 18 months to 4 years, depending on the flavour compounds.
We will never ship in pots or plastic packaging, here’s why…
Blister packaging protects capsules from the environment until they are ready for use. Blister packaging greatly reduces the amount of headspace for possible flavour escape. As each capsule individually blister packaged, making use of one capsule still leaves all others protected. FlavorActiV Flavour Standard packaging is 100% recyclable, as opposed to polypropylene which is not widely recycled.
Pots are semi-porous, they allow molecules to pass through and flavour to be lost, their significant headspace also adds to substantial flavour escape as a gas, even when using just one capsule all those remaining in the pot are exposed.
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