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Coffee Defects / Attributes Starter Multi-Kit
Welcome to our special edition coffee multi-kit! This kit has been designed to help you train your palate to recognise the most common flavour attributes and defects associated with coffee.
Included in the kit are WCR-approved flavours, as well as our own GMP flavour standards. These have been carefully selected to provide you with a comprehensive training experience. Also included is a lexicon card which provides instructions on how to use our GMP flavour standards.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
Special edition coffee multi-kit for an extra 10% saving!
Train to recognise the most common flavour attributes and defects associated with coffee. Flavours selected in our coffee attributes and defects kits are made up of WCR approved flavours (as listed within the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon 2.0), as well as our own relevant coffee GMP flavour standards.
Receive a coffee lexicon card and instructions on how to use our GMP flavour standards within each kit.
After you have trained to recognise these flavours, why not try your hand at our SCA award-winning Coffee Calibration Scheme to maintain your sensory abilities.
Flavours included in series 1 of these kits include:
Defects:
- Medicinal / Phenolic
O-Cresol (Methyl Phenol) - Peapod / Green Apple
Acetaldehyde - Acetic / Vinegar
Acetic Acid - Musty / Wet Earthy
Geosmin - Papery / Cardboard
Trans-2-Nonenal - Potato Skin
2-Isopropyl-Methoxyprazine
Attributes:
- Geraniol / Floral
Geraniol - Pineapple / Tropical Fruit
Ethyl Butyrate - Molasses / Brown Sugar
- Vanilla
Vanillin - Almond / Cherry
Benzaldehyde - Phenolic / Brown Spice
4-Vinyl Guiacol
FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Standards
Only Pharmaceutical Quality GMP Flavour Standards provide sufficient quality for professional sensory panels to train and validate with.
We produce encapsulated GMP (Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice) Flavour Standards that are safe to both smell and drink. The compounds within our capsules impart the aroma, taste and mouthfeel of a specific defect or positive flavour into a beverage for the purposes of taster training, calibration and quality control.
Our individual flavour GMP Flavour Standards are sold by flavour, each flavour pack contains 5 capsules, each separately blister packaged. Our sensory kits contain a mixture of flavours, each separately blister packaged, read the product description for flavour details.
We ship globally, and have over 20 years of experience at it. Our GMP Pharmaceutical Flavour Standards are produced to the highest standards, and as such, their shelf-life is strong and their quality consistent.
FlavorActiV’s flavour centre is the world’s only pharmaceutically run facility dedicated to the production of flavour reference standards. The Flavour Centre is a state-of-the-art facility housed within the campus of world-renowned Quay Pharma near Liverpool in the U.K.
The Flavour Centre was designed by FlavorActiV from the ground up at the direct request of global customers as they looked to move away from inferior food grade ‘certified flavour standards’ to GMP Pharma, a standard that ensures safe, stable, traceable, consistent and long shelf-life products.
All FlavorActiV’s industry-leading encapsulated flavour standards are manufactured following GMP at our Flavour Centre. All aspects of manufacture are overseen by Quay Pharma who are audited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory agency (MHRA). We also welcome customer audits.
Only FlavorActiV GMP flavour standard capsules bear our mark of authenticity.
We brand each of our capsules so that our customers know they’re getting the Pharmaceutical GMP Quality that only FlavorActiV provide.
Industry leading packaging and shelf-life
FlavorActiV flavour standards are blister packaged, which extends shelf-life and protects capsules from potential contamination. The average shelf-life of FlavorActiV flavour standards is 18 months to 4 years, depending on the flavour compounds.
We will never ship in pots or plastic packaging, here’s why…
Blister packaging protects capsules from the environment until they are ready for use. Blister packaging greatly reduces the amount of headspace for possible flavour escape. As each capsule individually blister packaged, making use of one capsule still leaves all others protected. FlavorActiV Flavour Standard packaging is 100% recyclable, as opposed to polypropylene which is not widely recycled.
Pots are semi-porous, they allow molecules to pass through and flavour to be lost, their significant headspace also adds to substantial flavour escape as a gas, even when using just one capsule all those remaining in the pot are exposed.
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