Flavored Oil Yeast Digest Heating Meaty Flavor

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for imparting a meaty flavor and cooked taste to food products without animal-based ingredients are cumbersome or fail to achieve a realistic flavor and taste.

Innovation Solution

A flavored oil is created by combining yeast-derived substances and protein hydrolysates with spices and an oil or fat, where the yeast-derived substances and protein hydrolysates are added to the oil or fat, heated, and then cooled, with optional filtration and addition of vitamin B1, to achieve a meaty flavor and cooked taste.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If yeast digest is added to edible oil and heated, then a meaty flavor is imparted, but the flavor lacks realism and cooked taste

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflavor qualityVSAvoidflavor authenticity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple ingredients (yeast digest, glucose, salt, and edible oil) to create a composite flavoring system. This composite approach allows the interaction of different components to generate a more realistic meaty flavor and cooked taste that cannot be achieved with yeast digest alone, thereby resolving the contradiction between imparting meaty flavor and achieving flavor authenticity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent specifies precise parameter ranges including the amount of yeast digest (0.1-10 wt%), glucose (0.1-5 wt%), salt (0.1-5 wt%), and heating temperature (80-120°C). By optimizing these parameters, the patent achieves both meaty flavor and realistic cooked taste, resolving the contradiction between flavor quality and authenticity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If highly conjugated heterocyclic ring complexed to iron ion is used, then meaty flavor is achieved, but the preparation process becomes cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflavor qualityVSAvoidprocess complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and utilizes the essential flavor-generating components (yeast digest, glucose, salt) from the complex highly conjugated heterocyclic ring system. By simplifying the ingredient composition to these extractive components while maintaining the core flavor-generating mechanism, the patent achieves meaty flavor without the cumbersome preparation process, resolving the contradiction between flavor quality and ease of manufacture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Adaptability or versatility

If plant-based ingredients are used to accommodate various lifestyles, then the product becomes suitable for flexitarians, vegetarians and vegans, but achieving realistic meaty flavor becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedietary compatibilityVSAvoidflavor quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes the parameters of plant-based ingredients, specifically using yeast digest from plant sources combined with precise ratios of glucose, salt, and heating conditions. This parameter optimization enables the plant-based formulation to achieve realistic meaty flavor and cooked taste, simultaneously satisfying both dietary compatibility and flavor quality requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The flavored oil effectively imparts a meaty flavor and cooked taste, masking green-beany odors and providing robustness and sweetness, suitable for use in various food products without animal-based ingredients.

Implementation Method 1

heating the mixture prepared in step A) whilst stirring the same

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMaillard reaction: Chemical Bonding

Data Source

PatentUS20240000095A1Flavored oil, food comprising flavored oil, and method for manufacturing flavored oil
Publication Date: 2024.01.04 MIYOSHI OIL & FAT

AI summary

The present disclosure provides a flavored oil and a food containing the flavored oil. The flavored oil according to the present disclosure contains: (A) one or more ingredients selected from yeast-derived substances and protein hydrolysates; and (B) a spice. The present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing the flavored oil, said method comprising the steps of: A) adding the one or more ingredients selected from yeast-derived substances and protein hydrolysate, and the spice to the oil or fat to prepare a mixture; B) heating the mixture prepared in step A) whilst stirring the same; and C) cooling the product obtained in step B) to room temperature.