Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans
Spices and perfumes – driving forces of humans
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