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Metallic Flavour Standard
FlavorActiV’s Metallic Flavour Standard, based on ferrous sulphate, replicates the distinct metallic taint caused by exposure to metal surfaces during production or storage. Often described as “blood-like,” “coppery,” or “metal can,” this off-note can compromise the sensory quality of beverages and food products, making it a critical target for sensory training and quality control teams.
Use this Metallic Flavour Standard as part of your sensory training programme to equip tasters with the ability to detect and describe metallic off-notes in food and beverages.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
Sensory Terms
– Ferrous ions – via ferrous sulphate
– Iron
– Copper coin
– Metal cans
– Blood like
Cause of Metallic Flavour
Metallic is a common taint that can occur in any beverage that is exposed to metal during its processing or transfer/storage of raw materials. Liquids can interact with metal surfaces, liberating metal ions and adding a metallic taste to products.
Packaging is a frequent source of this issue—damaged or poorly lined metal cans are known to cause metallic taints. Less commonly, low-quality plastic caps on crimped bottle tops may also contribute to this flavour defect.
This is an obvious impact flavour and is easily detected by the end consumer. It can also promote oxidation flavours within beverages.
Early identification of these faults can prevent customer complaints, product recalls, and damage to the brand. Enhance your team’s ability to detect and understand metallic off-flavours. Order the Metallic Flavour Standard today and take control of flavour quality from production to packaging.
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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