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Control Flavour Standard
The Control Flavour Standard is a reference sample used in sensory training and testing. It is designed to represent a product in its ideal state—free from any off-flavours or defects. This standard is odourless and tasteless, making it the perfect benchmark for comparison during sensory proficiency testing.
By using the control flavour standard, you ensure that all samples are treated equally, including any potential changes caused by the testing process, such as carbonation loss due to the introduction of powders.
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What is Control Flavour
The control flavour standard reference is provided as a control sample for training and during sensory proficiency testing. It allows a reference standard of the beverage to be treated the same as other flavour-standard spiked products.
By adding a control sample, you ensure that all samples are treated equally. Any carbonation loss due to the introduction of powder will be the same for all samples.
The control flavour standard helps enable your sensory panel to detect when a product meets the correct specification and has no defects.
Using the Control Flavour Standard for Sensory Training
The Control Flavour Standard is a critical component of sensory training programs. Here’s how it is used:
- – Baseline Reference: It provides a neutral, defect-free sample for comparison.
- – Proficiency Testing: Used in sensory proficiency tests to ensure panellists can distinguish between acceptable and defective products.
- – Consistency: Ensures all samples are treated equally, minimising variables like carbonation loss or powder introduction.
By incorporating the control flavour standard into your training, you enhance the accuracy and reliability of your sensory panel.
How to Recognise Control Flavour: Sensory Terms
The Control Flavour Standard is defined by its:
- – Odour: Odourless, with no detectable aroma.
- – Taste: Tasteless, providing a neutral baseline for comparison.
These characteristics make it an ideal reference for identifying deviations in flavour profiles.
What are the Professional Applications of the Control Flavour Standard?
The Control Flavour Standard is widely used by:
- – Sensory panels and quality assurance teams to establish a neutral baseline for comparison during sensory testing
- – Food and beverage manufacturers for routine quality control and product specification verification
- – Sensory scientists and trainers for panel calibration, training, and proficiency testing (including In/Out schemes)
- – Research and development teams to ensure consistency when evaluating new formulations or processing changes
It is also an essential component in sensory proficiency and benchmarking programs, helping organisations maintain consistent testing conditions and ensure that all samples are evaluated objectively against a defect-free, neutral reference standard.
Other Information
Useful for proficiency testing with In / Out Schemes.
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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