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Matching beer with food : pairing principles, underlying mechanisms and a focus on aromatic similarity
2018
Pairing between beer and dishes emerges as a new trend in France. Beer promoters or gastronomy professionals need to offer high-quality advices in terms of beer and food pairing to their customers. Within this context, the objective of the research was to identify pairing principles and to better understand the underlying perceptual mechanisms. Determinants of food and beverage pairing were first analysed from experts’ discourses. Results showed that food and beverage pairings are governed by perceptual, conceptual and affective features, related to physio-chemical, perceptual and cognitive processes. Experts often mentioned “Aromatic Similarity” as one of the main pairing principles. This …
Chemo-biological analysis applied to the olfaction field
2019
Human are surrounded by numerous molecules in the air from a limited number of olfactory receptors [1], and one odor is not caused by only one compound but by a mixture of molecules [2]. Two different perceptions exist, the first being the heterogeneous perception which is the distinction between the odor components of the mixture. The second perception is homogeneous and consists in a mixture of molecules resulting in a single odor which is not possible to distinguish between odor components of the mixture. There are two types of homogeneous perceptions:1-When one of the mixture components covers the other constituents and we can only smell the odor of one of the mixture components: it is …