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Coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world and a complex industry. Instant coffee has arisen in the first wave of coffee a…

These days, pretty much everyone enjoys the occasional flavored potato chip - and we have one Irish company to thank for their invention. Here's the story.

Martin Suard, responsable de la production et du contrôle qualité pour L'Arbre à café, explore les similitudes entre le breuvage et l'univers du parfum.

Every year, 119 million tons of used vegetable oil are produced worldwide, mainly from commercial kitchens and restaurants. Only a small proportion of this is reused, for example in the production ...

Comment le vigneron fait-il du vin ? Pourquoi les produits viticoles sont-ils si différents d'une région à l'autre ? Partez à la découverte de la chimie du vin.Qu'est-ce que la chimie du vin ?...

Creating effective batteries is a critical part of renewable energy plans – and wine and coffee could hold the answer to cheaper, more efficient and more eco-friendly battery tech.

The options for coffee drinks seem endless these days, and that includes the beans, too. So, what's the difference between coffee beans and espresso beans?

Novel foods in Europe will be subject to new safety assessments early next year as the European Food Safety Authority updates processes to better reflect the changing landscape and potentially speed up approvals.

List reveals how machine learning is already changing the central science

The clustered mountain mint, Pycnanthemum muticum, is a pleasant-smelling, native North American plant. Despite its wide geographical presence across the United States and Canada, little is known about the specific odorants responsible for its pleasing aroma. Herein, 42 odorants were identified in the plant through solvent-assisted flavor evaporation (SAFE), gas chromatography–olfactometry (GC-O), and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Subsequent analysis involved determining flavor dilution (FD) factors using aroma extract dilution analysis (AEDA), quantitating 14 odorants through stable isotope dilution assays (SIDA), and calculating their odor activity values (OAVs). Several noteworthy odorants with OAV ≥ 1 included pulegone (mint, medicinal; OAV 276), 1-octen-3-one (mushroom; OAV 149), menthofuran (mint, petrol; OAV 139), nonanal (citrus; OAV 21), γ-nonalactone (coconut; OAV 13), 1,8-cineole (eucalyptus; OAV 12), mintlactone (mint, coconut; OAV 12), menthone (mint, fresh; OAV 7.3), α-pinene (pine; OAV 4), and piperitenone (mint; OAV 1.9). The study also determined the stereochemistry of various chiral odorants. An aroma simulation model was developed to validate the identification and quantitative results; upon evaluation using olfactory profile analysis, no significant differences were found between the aroma model and an aqueous infusion of P. muticum (P 0.05). These findings lay the foundation for future investigations into the diversity of P. muticum selections and can provide valuable insights for studies on plant hybridization for food and flavor applications.

In a study published in Nature, a team has uncovered new new details about the long association between humans and our stomach bacteria.

Maillard reaction products (MRPs) produced by heating protease-catalyzed soy protein hydrolysates (SPHs) with cysteine and ribose can generate meat-li…

Scientists have uncovered a surprising survival strategy in yeast cells that could unlock new ways to combat cancer.

Videos about the chemistry of color typically only scratch the surface of how electromagnetic radiation creates the beautiful rainbows of the world around us.

In this study, plant-based meat flavoring was prepared by mixed fermentation and thermal reaction. Based on the changes of amino acid nitrogen, reduci…

Some participants were able to discriminate order of smells at intervals 10 times shorter than previously thought

A surprise assistant?

A pre-emptive response.

In Deutschland dürfen Erwachsene seit einem halben Jahr Cannabis konsumieren. Die Mehrheit der Bürger hält diese Entscheidung für falsch.

The aroma characteristics of Zanthoxylum schinifolium from four different production areas in Sichuan were identified and compared. Aroma components w…

A new TikTok trend claims adding a teaspoon of cinnamon to your daily coffee for one week can help you burn fat. Is there any truth to this?

Vegan diets can contain more UPFs on average – but this might not be a problem.

Prognosticating what chemistry can bring to our plates

Prepared dishes are becoming increasingly popular due to their convenience and nutritional value. However, warmed-over flavor (WOF), which occurs duri…

Abstract. The olfactory nerve, also known as cranial nerve I, is known to have exclusive ipsilateral projections to primary olfactory cortical structures.

"The simple things they told us, like eating your vegetables first, have always been good advice, and now science is backing it up.”

A team led by Penn State researchers recently developed an electronic tongue capable of identifying differences in similar liquids, such as milk with varying water content; diverse products, including soda types and coffee blends; signs of spoilage in fruit juices; and instances of food safety concerns. They found that results were even more accurate when artificial intelligence used its own assessment parameters to interpret the data generated by the electronic tongue.

A new study suggests that your morning cup of coffee might do more than just wake you up – it could be giving your blood vessels a boost too.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for computational protein design and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. To read about the science behind the prize in more detail, check out the Nobel Prize press release here, the popular science background here, or the more detailed scientific background here.…

Positive expectations engage the brain’s learning mechanisms; negative ones bring only pain.