A pineapple flavor imitation by the note metho

Abstract

Pineapple is an aromatic tropical fruit and has attractive sweet odor. The aroma of pineapple is very popular and pineapplflavor has good prospects for application. Usually, flavor recipes are trade secrets. This paper deals with how to construct pineapple flavor recipe and how to imitate a pineapple flavor with natural and synthetic aroma ingredients. By smelling antasting pineapple fruit, the notes of pineapple flavor was identified as fruity note, winy note, vanilla-like note, vegetative notbeany note, sweet note and acidic note. In the light of the notes of pineapple flavor, the corresponding aromatic natural ansynthetic ingredients having the same notes were choose to construct a pineapple flavor recipe. On the basis of the olfactordiscrimination, the pineapple recipe was modified and adjusted for several times, and finally a desired pineapple flavor recipe waobtained. The blended flavor based on the recipe was harmonious and had typical natural odor characteristics of pineapple frui