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Recent Advances in Kokumi Substances

ZENG Zhen, JIANG Hong*   

  1. College of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Online:2015-10-15 Published:2015-10-20

Abstract:

The concept and history of kokumi, the detection methods of novel kokumi substances, namely sensory evaluation
and calcium-sensing receptor assay, and the chemical structure of known kokumi substances are reviewed in this paper.
There are two major pathways for exploring novel kokumi substances: by separation and extraction from food materials
and by chemical synthesis and subsequent screening. The known kokumi substances mainly include amino acid derivatives,
oligopeptides and substituted pyridine.

Key words: kokumi substance, flavor enhancer, detection method, peptide

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