Flavor Formation and Character in Cocoa and Chocolate: A Critical Review
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| Keywords | Theobroma cacao, genetic origin, cocoa fermentation, roasting, conching, chocolate flavor, |
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Chocolate characters not only originate in flavor precursors present in cocoa beans, but are generated during post-harvest
treatments and transformed into desirable odor notes in the manufacturing processes. Complex biochemical modifications
of bean constituents are further altered by thermal reactions in roasting and conching and in alkalization.
Please contact Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Department of Biosciences and Biotechnology, University of Strathclyde, 204 George Street, Glasgow. E-mail: e.afoakwa@strath.ac.uk,e afoakwa@yahoo.com for more information.