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North Americans and Western Europeans love a good mix of alpha-terpineol, 4-methylpentanoic acid and ethyl propionate for dinner, flavor compounds shared in popular ingredients like tomatoes, parmesan cheese and white wine. Authentic East Asian recipes, on the other hand, tend to avoid mixing ingredients with many shared flavor compounds, according to new complex networks research from Indiana, Harvard, Cambridge and Northeastern universities.
ReplyDeleteEach node denotes an ingredient, the node color indicates food category, and node size reflects the ingredient prevalence in recipes. Two ingredients are connected if they share a significant number of flavor compounds, link thickness representing the number of shared compounds between the two ingredients.
Over the past decades, some food scientists and chefs have developed a food pairing hypothesis which states that ingredients sharing flavor compounds are more likely to taste good together than ingredients that do not. Some application of this can be found at contemporary restaurants that successfully pair white chocolate and caviar, ingredients that both contain trimethylamine and other flavor compounds, or chocolate and blue cheese, which share at least 73 flavor compounds.
Flavor compounds shared by culinary ingredients, the team could reformulate the food pairing hypothesis into a hypothesis on the graph-topological properties of recipes in the flavor network. Statistical tests can then be used to unveil the connectedness, or the lack thereof, of ingredients and flavor compounds.
"What we showed was that the recipes in North American cuisine tend to share more flavor compounds than expected. The most authentic ingredient pairs and triplets in North American cuisine also tend to share multiple flavor compounds, while compound-sharing links are rare among the most authentic combinations in East Asian cuisine.
"We identified frequently used ingredients that contributed positively to the food pairing effect in North American cuisine, like milk, butter, cocoa, vanilla, cream and eggs," Ahn said. "These played a disproportionate role, as 13 key ingredients that contributed to a shared compound effect were found in 74.4 percent of North American recipes."
There were also ingredients in East Asian cuisine -- beef, ginger, pork, cayenne, chicken and onion -- that were the top contributors to an overall negative shared compound effect on food pairing.
One future goal of the research would be to build an accessible infrastructure using more detailed datasets that incorporate the quantity information of flavor compounds, again advancing the use of data-driven network analysis methods that have transformed biology and the social sciences to yield new insights into food science.
Another interesting venue of research is studying the evolution of recipes. A recently published recipe-evolution model suggested that the staple ingredients consist of old ingredients (founders) and highly "fit" ingredients. "Among highly prevalent ingredients, we can see old ingredients that have been used in the same geographic region for thousands of years," Ahn said. "Yet there are also relatively new ingredients like tomatoes, potatoes and peppers that were introduced to Europe and Asia just a few hundred years ago. Though new, they are now staple ingredients".
http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111215/srep00196/full/srep00196.html
ReplyDeleteThe cultural diversity of culinary practice, as illustrated by the variety of regional cuisines, raises the question of whether there are any general patterns that determine the ingredient combinations used in food today or principles that transcend individual tastes and recipes. We introduce a flavor network that captures the flavor compounds shared by culinary ingredients. Western cuisines show a tendency to use ingredient pairs that share many flavor compounds, supporting the so-called food pairing hypothesis. By contrast, East Asian cuisines tend to avoid compound sharing ingredients. Given the increasing availability of information on food preparation, our data-driven investigation opens new avenues towards a systematic understanding of culinary practice.
http://www.perfumerflavorist.com/flavor/application/36577619.html?page=1
ReplyDeleteIn the 1980s our industry was vigorous and highly dynamic, with a diverse range of flavor and fragrance companies. It was a time of discovery and a time when each new chemical was a distinct point of differentiation. There was much excitement when new molecules became available to fuel the creative drive. Creating new, unique (and more natural tasting) flavors was the driving force for all leading companies. New molecules were the spearhead of technology and the market was very much ready to accept the distinctive new flavors that were created.
The challenge for the flavorist will be to develop better, more distinctive signature flavors while maintaining costs. We must continue to look at using novel raw materials to provide unique profiles. If a material is new and exciting, then more often than not it will be sufficiently powerful to be used at such a low level that cost should not be an issue. More than ever, it is important for the larger companies to focus on their creative resources and perhaps look to other industries as an example. The current crisis, like all such crises in the past, will prove to be temporary, but it does provide us with an opportunity to remodel ourselves for the future. The future success of our industry will depend on our success in challenging our creative paradigm.
http://www.fona.com/top10.html
ReplyDeleteFONA International is pleased to announce the debut of a new Flavor University® offering, created to help you overcome the “Top 10 Challenges of Flavor® .” Suitable for product developers from all segments of the food and beverage industry, this class pairs our expert staff with our twenty years of product-development experience to bring you the strategies, tips, and techniques you need to help you address the Top 10 Challenges of working with flavor!
Topics covered will include:
Screening Flavors—Tips and Techniques
Communicating with Descriptors
Developing a Brief that Delivers
Setting and Gaining Agreement on Sensory Goals
Working with Functional Ingredients
Utilizing the Culinary Approach
Proper Handling of Flavors
Going “Global” with a Flavor
Generating New Ideas
Keeping Up with “What’s Next”
This one-and-a-half-day course is held at our state-of-the-art headquarters in Geneva, Illinois. It begins at 1:00 p.m. on day one, continues through an early dinner, and then reconvenes from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on day two.
http://www.perfumersapprentice.com/flavorsworkshop/articles/novel_approach_b.pdf
ReplyDeleteUsing the Categorizing Technique To Make Flavvors By Frank Fischetti