Individual differences in sensory threshold for aroma chemicals added to beer.
Individual differences in sensory threshold for aroma chemicals added to beer.
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DOI:
10.1016/0950-3293(93)90158-3
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发表时间:
1993-01-01
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Meilgaard, M. C.
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作者:
Meilgaard, M. C.
The flavour impression made by a given food on different people can be judged from the variation in flavour thresholds for its principal flavour constituents. Perception thresholds were determined for 25 compounds. The compounds were purified to constant flavour and threshold. 22 laboratories and 400 tasters each examined from 1 to 18 of the compounds. These were added to bland beers, and Best-Estimate Thresholds (BET) were determined by ASTM Method E679, the Ascending Method of Limits. Panel thresholds varied from a high of 17 g/l for ethanol, to a low of 0.1 mug/l for geosmin and 2-nonenal. The difference between panels was generally less than 3-fold and rarely exceeded 5-fold. Individual differences in sensory threshold for a given compound can be described by the log s.d. from the geometric mean of the panel. The log s.d. averaged 0.53 0.15 (3.4-fold) over 60 panels. The log s.d. varied from the most uniform at 0.26 (1.8-fold) for SO2 to the least uniform at 0.95 (8.9-fold) for geraniol. The variability was least for simple flavours such as sweet, salty, butyric and alcoholic, and highest for complex yet distinct flavours such as hop oil, geraniol, vanillin and 2-nonenal. Results pointed towards the existence of a biomodal distribution of thresholds for geraniol and vanillin. No taster was highly sensitive to more than a few compounds nor was any taster insensitive to more than half of the compounds. [From En summ.]