Food-grade Blue Cheese/Blue Cheese Dressing flavor is a food additive that simulates the unique and intense flavor of blue cheese. Blue cheese is renowned for its distinctive flavor produced by fermentation with Penicillium molds (such as Penicillium roqueforti), and this flavor additive aims to safely and stably replicate this highly recognizable taste.
Flavor Characteristics: The core characteristic is a rich, intense, and slightly pungent cheese aroma, accompanied by the aged and “moldy” flavors characteristic of fermentation, usually combined with the smooth texture of cream and a slight saltiness. This flavor is complex and intense, with unique layers of taste.
Aroma Profile: Primarily characterized by the “spicy-fermented dairy aroma” of blue cheese, it also possesses the smooth, fatty feel of cream cheese and a slightly acidic undertone, presenting a four-layered structure of “salty-savory-dairy fat-ketone-earthy aroma.”
Key Ingredients:
3-Octenone (naturally occurring, FEMA 2803) – provides waxy, earthy, and typical blue cheese-like notes, threshold 5-10 ppm;
2/3-Methylbutanal, 2-Methylpropanal – provides fermented nutty and cheesy notes;
Diacetyl, Acetoin – creamy, buttery aroma;
Small amounts of short-chain fatty acids (butyric acid, hexanoic acid) – enhance the “pungent-spicy” impact.
Food Additive Blue Cheese Dressing Flavour is used in Salad dressing, potato chips, popcorn, sausage, hamburger patty, pizza toppings, cookies, bread, ice cream, yogurt, beverages, etc
Uses:
Blue cheese flavor is primarily used in savory and snack foods, but is also occasionally found in creative desserts:
Seasoning Sauces: The most common use is in making blue cheese salad dressing, dips, and marinades.
Snack Foods: Widely used in seasoning powders for potato chips, popcorn, puffed snacks, nuts, etc., providing a unique and bold flavor.
Meat Products: Used in some Western-style sausages, hamburger patties, or chicken wing marinades to add flavor depth.
Other: Can be used in some soup bases, pizza seasonings, or creative savory baked goods.
Food Additive Blue Cheese Dressing Flavour is used in Salad dressing, potato chips, popcorn, sausage, hamburger patty, pizza toppings, cookies, bread, ice cream, yogurt, beverages, etc
Suggested Usage:
Reconstituted/Injected Bacon and Ham: Recommended form: oil-soluble, suggested dosage: 0.02-0.05%, added at the end of tumbling, dissolving with nitrite can reduce the salty taste;
Biscuits, Cookies, Soda Bread: Recommended form: oil-soluble/powder, suggested dosage: 0.10-0.30‰, pre-mixed with butter, approximately 8% loss at 180℃;
Cheese-coated Potato Chips, Puffed Snacks: Recommended form: dusting powder, suggested dosage: 0.8-1.2%, coat with powder while hot after spraying with oil, powder adhesion rate 8-10%;
Compound Seasoning Powder (Pizza Topping): Recommended form: powder, suggested dosage: 0.5-1.0%, pre-mixed with onion powder and garlic powder at a ratio of 1:10;
Ice Cream, Yogurt: Recommended form: emulsified/powder, suggested dosage: 0.08-0.15%, added at the end of aging to reduce high-temperature volatilization;
Beverages (Milk Foam Tea, Functional Soda): Recommended form: emulsified, suggested dosage: 0.05-0.10%, synergistic with 0.2% citric acid to mask phenolic bitterness;
Food Additive Blue Cheese Dressing Flavour is used in Salad dressing, potato chips, popcorn, sausage, hamburger patty, pizza toppings, cookies, bread, ice cream, yogurt, beverages, etc
