Cucumber Flavour Standard
The Cucumber GMP Flavour Standard is essential for sensory training and panel validation in the beverage industry. When dissolved in a liquid, it imparts a distinct cucumber-like, green vegetable smell and taste, enabling sensory panellists to identify and assess this specific taste during quality control processes.
The taint occurs when vegetable matter breaks down and contaminates source water supplies. Such contamination can occur when water flows through vegetation or plant material enters water sources.
Regular use of the Cucumber Flavour Standard in sensory checks ensures early detection of issues, enabling corrective action before products reach consumers.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
Sensory Terms
– Green vegetable
– Cucumber
– Fragrant
These terms are commonly used in sensory panels to describe the aroma and taste profile associated with cucumber taint.
Cause of Cucumber Flavour
The cucumber off-flavour typically originates from source water contamination caused by decomposing organic material, such as:
– Vegetation breakdown in natural water sources
– Water flowing through decaying plant matter
– Algal bloom decomposition
These flavour defects can affect various beverages, from beer and cider to soft drinks, water, and juices.
Don’t let your product be affected by this off-flavour – use the FlavorActiV Cucumber GMP Flavour Standards today!
Only our Pharmaceutical Quality GMP Flavour Standards provide sufficient quality for professional sensory panels to train and validate.
Other Information
The Cucumber flavour is one of many that can occur due to the breakdown of organic matter in water.
A good final product is only as good as the initial raw materials used to create it. For beverages with such taints, incoming water should be reviewed via sensory analysis. A great beverage starts with clean, taint-free water. Let FlavorActiV help you keep it that way.
Order your FlavorActiV Cucumber GMP Flavour Standards today and ensure your sensory team can identify and manage off-flavours confidently.
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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