Masking undesirable notes in a nutraceutical drink

Hello everyone, Can anyone throw some light on strategies for masking undesirable flavor or bitterness in a nutraceutical drink. Basically, this drink is prepa…

  1. Food R&D Emeritus reply

    @bonitaaranha.. That's one issue that occasionally crops up during discussion In improving taste in food and beverage with fellow food scientists. As far as I can remember,... The…

  2. Shakeel Ahmed reply

    Hi, which molecule / compound is responsible for the undesirable taste?

  3. Michael Bryanton reply

    Most of the larger flavour houses offer masking agents that target specific attributes. I have worked with some good ones from Bell Flavors and with a mushroom chitin based maskin…

  4. Bonit Aranha reply

    It's a mixture of spirulina, barley, wheat grass and alfalfa powder.

  5. Michael Bryanton reply

    Are you adding any flavors? Fruit flavors tend to be good maskers in this type of beverage.

  6. Food & Material Scientist reply

    Since these are the ingredients, I am sure you might have worked on different ratios of these ingredients before coming up with this final formulation. And that would mean that yo…

  7. Wayne Van Nieuwenhuizen reply

    Alfalfa is known as Lucerne in South Africa and is used widely in animal feed pellets. I had some the other day as I make flavours for this purpose. I would unless you are making…