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One off note, one Sauvignon blanc, two published detection thresholds: 17.4 and 210 parts per trillion (ng/L). The only thing that changed was the panel. The molecule is TCA, the compound behind cork taint. It shows that a published threshold ...

This week, Aromatech US made its biggest donation yet. We dropped off a full truck bed of office equipment at A Gift for Teaching: four laser printers, battery backup units, WiFi routers and extenders, a webcam, toner, a new phone ...

The biggest ingredient in a liquid flavor is often not flavor. It sits on one line of the spec sheet, and most people read right past it: "Solvent: propylene glycol." A solvent is the liquid the flavor compounds are dissolved ...

Clove and allspice are not two spices on your brief. Chemically they are mostly one compound, and nothing on the spec sheet will tell you that. They are separate botanicals with separate CAS numbers. On the formula they are two ...

Thai basil is not really a basil flavor. It is a tarragon molecule wearing a Thai accent. Thai basil runs on anise and licorice, with a green herbal edge underneath. That anise note is the whole personality of the herb. ...

"Nature-identical." It's on the regulatory line of a European spec sheet somewhere in your supplier folder. Most people move past it. A nature-identical flavor molecule is made by chemical synthesis and is the same molecule you would find in nature. ...