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Mint gum leaves your mouth at body temperature, yet it feels like breathing winter air. The sensor behind that is TRPM8, a cold receptor on nerve endings in the mouth and skin. In the study that identified it, the cloned ...

The mushroom note in miso comes from a mold. Miso is a staple of Japanese cooking: soybeans fermented for months with salt and koji, rice or barley grown with the mold Aspergillus oryzae. The beans bring protein. The mold and ...

The same vanilla flavor can clear one grocer's ingredient review and get turned away by the next, without a single change to the formula. "Clean label natural vanilla flavor." That line on a supplier spec has no legal definition behind ...

Coffee kept on the warmer stops smelling fresh long before anyone pours the last cup. Most of that roasty aroma is still in the pot, bound to the coffee itself. The smell of fresh brew comes largely from 2-furfurylthiol, a ...

On Monday, October 26, the Aromatech US team gathered in our Orlando break room, decorated in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everyone received a pink ribbon pin and a flower, and we took a moment to talk about screenings. ...

Since July 1, a bag of BBQ chips placed on the EU market can no longer get its smoke from the smoke flavourings Europe used to authorize. In the US, the same bag still can. The EU did not renew ...