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The concept of “Medicinal Flavour Standard” denotes an off-flavour that resembles medicine that is introduced into food & beverages by inadequate cleaning in process (CIP) systems.
Cleaning agents used in beverage processing systems provide the medicinal flavour since rinsing does not completely eliminate it. The residual cleaning agent will impart medicinal-like flavours to the end product when it comes into contact with raw water, raw ingredients, and finished products.
Our 2-methyl phenol flavour standard is used in the sensory training of professional spirit tasters to recognise and evaluate the level of medicinal taste.
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Sensory Terms
– 2-methyl phenol (o-cresol)
– Mouthwash
– Hospital
– Antiseptic cleaner
– Chlorinated phenols
Cause of Flavour
Imparted via poor cleaning in process (CIP) systems – cleaning agent is run through beverage processing systems and it is not effectively removed via rinsing. Contact with raw water, raw material and finished product to the residual cleaning agent will impart medicinal like flavours.
Medicinal like flavours can also be imparted at the consumer delivery level – via poorly cleaned lines at fountains and other dispensary systems.
This can occur in any beverage alcoholic and non-alcoholic alike.
Other Information
Beer Flavour Wheel Number: 0500 class of flavours.
Medicinal is one of a number of taints that can occur due to poor cleaning and hygiene processes. Please contact us for more flavour information.
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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