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US 9,700,067 B2Granted
Methods and compositions for affecting the flavor and aroma profile of consumables
AssigneeImpossible Foods Inc.
InventorsRachel Fraser, Patrick O'Reilly Brown, Jessica Karr, Celeste Holz-Schietinger, Elysia Cohn
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Abstract
This document relates to food products containing highly conjugated heterocyclic rings complexed to an iron ion and one or more flavor precursors, and using such food products to modulate the flavor and/or aroma profile of other foods. The food products described herein can be prepared in various ways and can be formulated to be free of animal products.
Claims23
A ground beef-like food product comprising:
- a) 0.1%-5% by weight of a heme-containing protein comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to the polypeptide set forth in SEQ ID NO:4;
- b) a compound selected from glucose, ribose, fructose, lactose, xylose, arabinose, glucose-6-phosphate, maltose, and galactose, and mixtures of two or more thereof;
- c) at least 10 mM of a compound selected from cysteine, cystine, selenocysteine, thiamine, methionine, and mixtures of two or more thereof;
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- d) 10% or more by weight of one or more plant proteins,
- wherein the ground beef-like food product contains no animal products, and
- wherein cooking the ground beef-like food product results in the production of at least two volatile compounds which have a beef-associated aroma.
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