Process for preparing flavour compounds
First Claim
1. Process for preparing a volatile component or mixture of components, said process comprising heating a mixture containing reactants as herein defined, said heating being performed under N different processing parameters wherein one or more of the N processing parameters and/or one or more of the reactants to choose for obtaining the desired volatile component are derivable from a relationship between:
- sensorical data obtainable from analysing reaction products of actual experiments, volatile reaction products and their composition, processing parameters, reactants, said composition being obtainable;
(a) from an actual mass distribution obtainable from performing at least 100 (preferably at least
1000) reactions involving heating reactants under predetermined and known processing parameters, analysing the volatile fraction of the reaction product obtained from each of the reactions above to provide composition analyses thereof, encoding it as a mass distribution, and/or (b) simulation of complex chemical reaction pathways involving the simulation of reacting reactants under predetermined and specified processing parameters.
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Abstract
A process for preparing components or mixtures of components that can be utilised to impart a flavour to a foodstuff. More in particular, a process for preparing flavour components involving so-called Maillard reactions, wherein at least part of the reaction conditions is determined by modelled relationships and/or a simulation of complex chemical reaction pathways.
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1. Process for preparing a volatile component or mixture of components, said process comprising heating a mixture containing reactants as herein defined, said heating being performed under N different processing parameters wherein one or more of the N processing parameters and/or one or more of the reactants to choose for obtaining the desired volatile component are derivable from a relationship between:
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sensorical data obtainable from analysing reaction products of actual experiments, volatile reaction products and their composition, processing parameters, reactants, said composition being obtainable;
(a) from an actual mass distribution obtainable from performing at least 100 (preferably at least
1000) reactions involving heating reactants under predetermined and known processing parameters, analysing the volatile fraction of the reaction product obtained from each of the reactions above to provide composition analyses thereof, encoding it as a mass distribution, and/or(b) simulation of complex chemical reaction pathways involving the simulation of reacting reactants under predetermined and specified processing parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer program product directly loadable into the internal memory of a digital computer, comprising software code portions for the simulation of complex chemical reaction pathways by iteratively applying a set of operations or computer intructions to:
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a Soup of molecules representing the current state of the system, a Reaction Set describing transformations that may take place in the Maillard process, to produce volatile and non-volatile molecules, wherein the iteration is coded as a computer programme, for simulating complex chemical reactions when such product is run on a computer.
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16. Computerized system comprising means for entering sensorical data, fingerprint data and process variables to be set at the start of a chain of reactions, and a computer programme for predicting process variables to obtain new desired fingerprint data and/or sensorical data using an iterative procedure, based upon already entered sensorical data, fingerprint data and process variables, and means for providing output.
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17. A computer programme product directly loadable into the internal memory of a digital computer, comprising software code portions coding for:
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Initialise Soup, and Reaction Set (containing reaction database and reaction kinetic database) Loop
Loop through reaction blocksSelect Random reaction If (transformation probability >
random number)Select random reactant(s) If reactant(s) are correct for reaction Remove bonds Change atom type &
hybridisationAdd bonds If (mass of product <
mass limit)Remove reactants from Soup Add product(s) to Soup Endif Endif Endif
EndloopEndloop when such product is run on a computer, wherein the Italics indicate optional computer instructions.
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