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Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans

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Flavour <strong>–</strong> phytochemcials with special meaning to<br />

<strong>humans</strong><br />

Flavours principles: one has to differentiate between substances<br />

that have been isolated from a spice or that simulate one!<br />

apple ethyl-2-methylbutyrate<br />

banana amylacetate & eugenol<br />

coconut @-nona-lactone<br />

lemon citral (limonene= smell<br />

peach undeca-lactone<br />

vanilla vanillin<br />

celery apiole, myristicine<br />

mushrooms lenthionine<br />

onion Dipropyl disulphide,<br />

propanethiol lachrymator<br />

Esters : amylacetate ethyl-methyl<br />

butyrate banana apple<br />

Harborne JB (1988) Introduction to Ecological Biochemistry, Academic Press London

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