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…
- 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…
- Shakeel Ahmed reply
Hi, which molecule / compound is responsible for the undesirable taste?
- 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…
- Bonit Aranha reply
It's a mixture of spirulina, barley, wheat grass and alfalfa powder.
- Michael Bryanton reply
Are you adding any flavors? Fruit flavors tend to be good maskers in this type of beverage.
- 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…
- 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…