FLAVORING COMPOSITIONS PRODUCED BY REACTING HYDROGEN SULFIDE WITH A PENTOSE

摘要

The flavoring compositions produced by the reaction of a pentose with hydrogen sulfide possess potent flavoring characteristics even though the reactants from which they are produced are markedly different from such compositions. For example, certain such compositions possess a characteristic meat flavor in a concentration as low as one part in 10,000 notwithstanding that one of the components for producing such compositions has an obnoxious odor. Such meat flavoring compositions significantly increase the degree of palatability of nonmeat protein.