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VEGAN FEAST SUBSCRIBERS' COOKING AND RECIPE FORUM>
"artificial" pork/chicken/beef flavor?
jtnippon1985
73 posts
Mar 02, 2007
7:20 AM
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After browsing a lot of different products at one of the local Asian grocery stores, I noticed something a lot of the prepackaged flavored noodle packs, as well as some broth bases have in common: they all contain these mysterious "artifical" meat flavors. Since I really have no knowledge of the science of artificial flavorings, nor do I know anyone in the business that does, I was wondering if anyone could shed on any light on this.
It would open up a lot of possibilities if these articial flavors were lab created, and not derived from any animal source.
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Bryanna
Owner/Moderator
2037 posts
Mar 02, 2007
10:07 AM
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You have me stumped on this one!
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jtnippon1985
74 posts
Mar 02, 2007
9:29 PM
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Just as a follow up, I was reading this site:
http://www.fks.com/flavors/tech/Science%20of%20Flavor%20Creation.asp
What I assume was stated (as there was a lot of techno jargon about chemical processes and whatnot) is that flavors are created on the basis of two principles:
1. contributory Items
2. Differential
Basically when these two flavors are mixed they have a smell/taste that is reminiscent of the wanted flavor (chicken/beef/pork/almond/other expensive flavor sources that would break down in the process to create a flavor and thus be economically impractical)
So for now, unless someone says otherwise, I will take this under the *assumption* that artificial flavorings are exactly that, artificial.
With that in mind, I'll try using the Asian "artficial" pork broth to reconstitute soy curls for my BBQ "pork" sandwiches now. :P
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