Sodium Nitrite and Caramel Flavour

Hi everyone, Hope all of you are great and safe. I am currently developing a premix for a cured meat, and we try to include the liquild caramel flavour in the…

1. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   To totally understand the phenomenon you are experiencing with your curing mix.please tell us what ingredients are inside it including caramel flavor and nitrite. BTW May I know t…

2. Cong reply

   Hi Roy, Thanks for the reply. Except for these two ingredients, the other stuff are basically salt and sugar and starch. I did an isolated experiment and found out the caramel fla…

3. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   @zhicong.kang Caramel flavor normally is just concentrated flavoring of caramel and solvent ,usually propylene glycol..May I know the components of your caramel flavor as declared…

4. Cong reply

   Hi Roy, thanks for replying. You're quite right, the caramel flavour we used is actually Propylene Glycol and water based flavours (As solvent). Other substance that has been ment…

5. Cong reply

   Not sure it would be one of the situation.. I used to hear a senior in meat industry said liquid smoke and nitrite can't be added together as the nitrite would be "broken down". T…

6. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   [quote "zhicong.kang, post:5, topic:11788, full:true"]Other substance that has been mentioned is the ascorbic acid as antioxidant. So it's highly unlikely those would react with t…

7. Cong reply

   Hi Roy, I want to thank you so much for the information and idea. This actually very make sense to our current stage and I would look for more information based on the knowledge y…