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Acetaldehyde Flavour Standard
The Acetaldehyde Flavour Standard is a training tool for professional tasters to recognize and measure the intensity of acetaldehyde character in food and beverages. It’s a natural by-product of fermentation, and this flavour standard is based on Acetal conversion to Acetaldehyde. It imparts a green apple-like taste to cider, which is perceived as somewhat like emulsion paint as the concentration increases.
Acetaldehyde in beer adds a distinctive dimension to the beverage’s sensory profile, enhancing its overall character and complexity with its unique aroma and flavour.
The Acetaldehyde Flavour Standard for sensory training is a crucial tool for brewers and food tasters to assess and maintain the desired acetaldehyde aroma and taste in their brews.
Whether you’re in the food or beverage industry, the Acetaldehyde Flavour Standard is a must-have tool for ensuring your products are of the highest quality.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
Associated Sensory Terms
– Bruised apple
– Green apple
– Solvent
– Emulsion paint
Acetaldehyde’s aroma is similar to that of green apple, emulsion paint, or white wine. It is a certified spirit flavour standard used to train professional spirit tasters to identify and scale the intensity of acetaldehyde’s character.
Cause of Acetaldehyde Flavour
Acetaldehyde flavour is caused in alcoholic beverages as part of the natural yeast fermentation process. Acetaldehyde flavour indicates high oxygen levels within packaged products. This flavour standard is based on Acetal conversion to Acetaldehyde and tastes different from pure Acetaldehyde.
Other Information
Beer Flavour Wheel Number: 0150
Typical concentration seen: 2-15 mg / l
Recommended flavour standard / sensory reference standard of: the American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) and the European Brewing Chemists (EBC)
FlavorActiV offers two different types of Acetaldehyde: one based on acetal and the other on pure Acetaldehyde. Contact us for more information.
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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