Nestec S.a.

Robert D Wood

Thang Ho Dac

Hugh Hose

Tomaso Sozzi

Marcel E Buhler

Sven Heyland

Pierre Dupart

Jean-Jacques Desjardins

Philippe Duby

Beat Denis Zurbriggen

Nicola D'Amico

Rupak Bajracharya

Ulrich Zurcher

Alfred Woupeyi

Thang H Dac

Process for the production of a meat flavor, in which a mixture of a plant source of proteins and of a plant source of carbohydrates is prepared having at least initially 45% by weight of dry matter, the mixture is inoculated with one or more microbial species traditionally used in the preparation of fermented cooked meat products, and is then incubated for a time period and at a temperature sufficient to produce a meat flavor. The meat flavor may be extracted with oil, a gas, or a fluorocarbon-based solvent. The mixture may be a koji. Flavor compositions are thus produced. In particular, a salami flavor is obtained by incubation with a mixture of Pediococcus pentosaceus and Staphylococcus xylosus or Staphylococcus carnosus.

Production of an aromatizing agent

Method of preparing an flavoring base, in which a mixture is prepared combining at least water and a starchy starting material, the mixture is liquefied with at least one carbohydrase and it is treated enzymatically with a lipase or a lipoxygenase, and use of the the dried or liquid flavoring base for the manufacture of a food product.

Method for preparing a flavoring base

A flavorant composition is prepared by inoculating and fermenting a protein-rich material, particularly pulse seeds and in particular, cooked pulse seeds, and then, the fermented material is mixed with a reducing sugar and water, the mixture is heated to obtain a reaction product, and the reaction product is dried.

Flavorant composition prepared by fermentation

A malolactic ferment is produced from at least one malolactic bacterium strain which is cultured in a culture medium containing an assimilable nitrogen source, malic acid and alcohol. The ferment biomass is separated from the culture medium. The biomass may be concentrated and may be frozen with a cryoprotective agent or dehydrated. The biomass may be added directly to wine to effect malolactic fermentation.

Preparation and use of a malolactic ferment biomass

Vegetables and fruits are heat-treated to blanch them and then cooled. The heat-treated vegetables are fermented with a lactic bacteria in the presence of water to obtain a fermented food and water of fermentation having a pH of from 3.1 to 4.4. The water of fermentation is drained from the fermented food, which then is washed. The fermented food, at a pH of from 3.8 to 4.4, then is pasteurized.

Preservation of vegetables and fruits

A process for the production of a flavoring agent, in which an aqueous suspension of a protein-rich material is prepared, the proteins are solubilized by hydrolysis with a neutral or alkaline protease, the suspension is heat-treated at a mildly acidic pH value and is then ripened with koji enzymes.

Flavouring agent

A process for the production of a soya sauce, in which a koji is prepared by fermentation with a koji culture of a mixture of cooked soya and roasted wheat, the koji is hydrolyzed in aqueous suspension with the enzymes produced during fermentation of the koji, a moromi is prepared by addition of sodium chloride to the hydrolyzed koji suspension, the moromi is left to ferment and is then pressed and the liquor obtained is pasteurized and clarified.

Process for producing soya sauce

An acidified milk product of creamy consistency obtained by acidification of a suspension of the skimmed milk type with a combination of roping and thickening lactic bacteria and showing high stability to hot coffee, to sterilization and in storage.

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Lausanne, Switzerland

Robert D Wood