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Isoamyl Acetate Flavour Standard
The Isoamyl Acetate flavour standard helps train professional tasters to recognise the potency of isoamyl acetate’s character in beverages. Isoamyl acetate occurs primarily in alcoholic beverages, formed by yeast during fermentation. The flavour threshold of isoamyl acetate is 0.5 – 10 mg / l.
The amount of isoamyl acetate created is determined by the mixture of grains, yeast strain, and fermentation conditions. It is a normal flavour and is seen positively in most alcoholic beverages. At high concentrations, this flavour can become problematic, affecting the brand profile.
Use the Isoamyl Acetate Flavour Standard to confidently identify and manage one of the most important ester notes in beverage production. Order now to train your sensory team with precision.
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Minimum Order: £275
Sensory Terms
– Banana
– Fruity
– Estery
– Pear drops
Cause of Isoamyl Acetate Flavour
Isoamyl acetate is a naturally occurring ester commonly found in alcoholic beverages, produced by yeast during fermentation. Known for its distinct banana-like aroma, it is considered desirable in many beer, cider, and spirit profiles. However, at high concentrations, it can overpower other flavour notes and negatively impact a brand’s intended flavour profile.
This flavour is unlikely to be present in non-alcoholic beverages unless it is a carryover from flavourings used in previous production or bottling activities.
Why Choose FlavorActiV Flavour Standards?
Our flavour standards are produced under Pharmaceutical GMP conditions, offering:
– Accurate, reproducible flavour profiles
– Long shelf life and safe-to-use capsules
– Trusted by global breweries, distilleries, and sensory labs
Boost your beverage sensory training with FlavorActiV’s certified Isoamyl Acetate standard — the industry benchmark for estery banana flavour recognition.
Other Information
Beer Flavour Wheel Number: 0131
Flavour Level: Variable – 0.5 – 10 mg / l
Train your team with precision. Enhance quality. Protect your brand.
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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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