Chocolate replicas produced from individual components
AssigneeVoyage Foods, Inc.
InventorsKelsey Tenney, Adam Maxwell, Ethan Charles Beswick, Samuel Ryo, Daniel Assad Saad, Alec Kremonic Lee, Mardonn Carl Chua, Brandon Head
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Abstract
Materials and methods for producing chocolate replicas from individual components are provided herein.
Claims13
A chocolate replica comprising:
- a plant-based solid substrate, wherein the plant-based solid substrate is present in the chocolate replica at about 0.5 wt % to about 99.9 wt %,
- two or more isolated volatile organic compounds (VOCs), wherein the two or more isolated VOCs comprise acetoin and at least one of 2,3-diethylpyrazine, 2,3-pentadione, 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine, 2-methoxypyrazine, 3-methylbutyraldehyde, 5-methyl-2-hepten-4-one, coffee furanone, furfuryl mercaptan, indole, vanillin propylene glycol acetal, vanillyl ethyl ether, (E)-anethole, 1-heptanol, 2,3,5-trimethyl-6-ethylpyrazine, 2,3-butanedione, 2,4,5-trimethylthiazole, 2-acetylpyridine, 2-ethoxy-3-methyl pyrazine, 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, 2-ethylene-6-methylpyrazine, 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, 2-isopropyl-5-methyl-2-hexenal, 2-methylbutyraldehyde, 2-methyl furan, 2-methyl-1-butanol, 2-octanol, 2-octanone, 2-phenylpropionaldehyde, 3,4-hexanedione, 3,5-diethyl-2-methylpyrazine, 3-octanone, 4,5-dimethyl-2-ethyl-3-thiazoline, 4-ethylguaiacol, 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethy-3(2H)-furanone, 4-methyl-2-phenyl-2-pentenal, 4-methyl-5-thiazoleethanol, 4-methylguaiacol, 6-propyl-5,6-dihydropyran-2-one, anethole, beta-damascenone, damascenone, ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, ethyl 3-phenylpropionate, ethyl butanoate, ethyl isobutyrate, ethyl isovalerate, furfuryl acetate, furfuryl propionate, hexyl isobutyrate, isoamyl benzoate, isoamyl butyrate, isoamyl phenylacetate, isopropenyl pyrazine, linalool oxide, methional, methyl 2-thiofuroate, methyl butyrate, methyl p-anisate, methyl phenylacetate, ocimene, p-cresol, prenyl benzoate, propanol, propenal, propyl 2-furoate, pyridine, syringol, tetrahydrofurfuryl phenylacetate, trans-2-nonenal, and tricyclodecenyl isobutyrate;
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- one or more isolated non-volatile compounds.
A chocolate replica comprising two or more isolated volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and one or more isolated non-volatile compounds, wherein the two or more isolated VOCs comprise at least one VOC that is not present in a corresponding reference chocolate, wherein the chocolate replica does not contain cocoa beans or processed cocoa beans, and wherein the two or more isolated VOCs comprise acetoin and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 2,3-diethylpyrazine, 2,3-pentadione, 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine, 2-methoxypyrazine, 3-methylbutyraldehyde, 5-methyl-2-hepten-4-one, coffee furanone, furfuryl mercaptan, indole, vanillin propylene glycol acetal, vanillyl ethyl ether, (E)-anethole, 1-heptanol, 2,3,5-trimethyl-6-ethylpyrazine, 2,3-butanedione, 2,4,5-trimethylthiazole, 2-acetylpyridine, 2-ethoxy-3-methyl pyrazine, 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, 2-ethylene-6-methylpyrazine, 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, 2-isopropyl-5-methyl-2-hexenal, 2-methylbutyraldehyde, 2-methyl furan, 2-methyl-1-butanol, 2-octanol, 2-octanone, 2-phenylpropionaldehyde, 3,4-hexanedione, 3,5-diethyl-2-methylpyrazine, 3-octanone, 4,5-dimethyl-2-ethyl-3-thiazoline, 4-ethylguaiacol, 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethy-3(2H)-furanone, 4-methyl-2-phenyl-2-pentenal, 4-methyl-5-thiazoleethanol, 4-methylguaiacol, 6-propyl-5,6-dihydropyran-2-one, anethole, beta-damascenone, damascenone, ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, ethyl 3-phenylpropionate, ethyl butanoate, ethyl isobutyrate, ethyl isovalerate, furfuryl acetate, furfuryl propionate, hexyl isobutyrate, isoamyl benzoate, isoamyl butyrate, isoamyl phenylacetate, isopropenyl pyrazine, linalool oxide, methional, methyl 2-thiofuroate, methyl butyrate, methyl p-anisate, methyl phenylacetate, ocimene, p-cresol, prenyl benzoate, propanol, propenal, propyl 2-furoate, pyridine, syringol, tetrahydrofurfuryl phenylacetate, trans-2-nonenal, and tricyclodecenyl isobutyrate.
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