Food flavors refer to substances that can be used to formulate food flavors and enhance food flavors. It can not only increase appetite, facilitate digestion and absorption, but also play an important role in increasing the variety of foods and improving food quality.

1. The key point of the essence of flavor

The key for fragrances to play a good role in perfuming products is the regulation of volatility, how to balance and coordinate the top fragrance, body fragrance and base fragrance.

Top fragrance-high volatility is an important factor in determining the "image" and "freshness" of the essence.

Body scent-endows essence with characteristic scent, moderate volatility, and is also the main scent of essence.

Base fragrance-low volatility, correspondingly the molecular structure is relatively large and complex, making the fragrance last long.

2. The application of flavors in the food industry

(1) The oil flavor is suitable for hard candy, biscuits and other baked goods, meat products, instant noodles, etc. The general dosage is about 0.2%. But oily flavors using propylene glycol as a solvent can also be used in soda, beverages, etc. The general dosage is 0.05-0.1%.

(2) Water flavor is suitable for soft drinks, beverages, ice cream, other cold drinks, wine, etc. The general dosage is 0.07-0.15%.

(3) Emulsified flavor is suitable for soft drinks, beverages, etc. The general dosage is about 0.1%; the dosage of clouding agent is 0.08-0.12%.

(4) Paste flavor is suitable for the preparation of soft drinks and beverages, and can also be used directly in soft drinks and beverages. The general dosage is 0.2-0.23% (full color), 0.05% (non-full color, additional caramel color 0.15- 0.18%).

(5) Coconut powder is suitable for biscuits, other meat, vegetables, and poultry powder is suitable for biscuits, and other meat, vegetables, and poultry powder is suitable for puffed food, convenience food and soup. The general dosage is 0.3-1 %.

(6) The amount of flavor for wine is generally 0.04-0.1%, and the amount of flavor for tea is about 1%. The dosage of powdered flavors for feed is generally 0.5‰, and feed flavors (used for additives) (5%-10%).

(7) Powder flavor is suitable for instant noodles, puffed snacks, meat products, spicy snacks, quick-frozen products, etc. The general dosage is 0.1-0.5%.

(8) Paste flavor is suitable for instant noodles, puffed snacks, meat products, spicy snacks, quick-frozen products, etc. The general dosage is 0.1-0.5%.