Mushroom flavoring is a complex food additive designed to highly mimic the unique salty, earthy, and ester-like aromas of fresh mushrooms (such as white mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, or porcini mushrooms).
Mushroom flavoring is based on enzymatic hydrolysates or mushroom oleoresins from edible fungi (shiitake, oyster, matsutake, etc.). Key aroma-active compounds are screened using GC-O olfaction technology, and then blended with pyrazines (2-ethyl-3-methylpyrazine), sulfur-containing compounds (dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl trisulfide), and 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom alcohol) to create a salty/umami flavoring with typical “mushroom-woody-earthy-sulfur” characteristics.
Flavor Characteristics: A typical and rich mushroom aroma.
Aroma Layers: Top notes are fresh herbal and earthy; middle notes present a rich, sweet (meaty) after protein decomposition; base notes have a lingering woody fragrance.
Food Mushroom Flavour is used in Instant noodle seasoning packets, sauce packets, hot pot base ingredients, seasoning powder, potato chips, popcorn, bread, meatballs, pasta sauce, fishing bait, etc
Main Uses:
It is a core savory flavor solution that enhances the “premium” and “richness” of products:
Convenience Foods and Soups: Creamy mushroom soup (core application), instant noodle seasoning packets (such as mushroom soup noodles), ready-to-eat sauce packets, self-heating hot pot base, instant porridge.
Seasonings: Compound seasoning powder, chicken bouillon/vegetable seasoning, barbecue seasoning, hot pot dipping sauce, flavored salad dressing.
Snacks: Mushroom-flavored potato chips, popcorn coating powder, mushroom-flavored puffed snacks, coated breadsticks.
Meat Products and Plant-Based Meat: Added to meatballs, sausages, or plant-based meat (vegetarian meat) to increase meat texture and mask beany taste.
Pre-Cooked Dishes: Used in pasta sauces (such as truffle mushroom sauce), seasoned steaks, and various mushroom-based pre-cooked dishes.
Food Mushroom Flavour is used in Instant noodle seasoning packets, sauce packets, hot pot base ingredients, seasoning powder, potato chips, popcorn, bread, meatballs, pasta sauce, fishing bait, etc
Dosage and Usage Recommendations:
Compound seasoning sauces, hot pot bases: 0.3%–0.8%;
Frozen prepared foods (meatballs, dumplings): 0.3%–0.8%;
Baking, biscuit, potato chip coating: 0.2%–0.5%;
Instant noodle sauce/powder packets: 0.2%–0.5%;
Plant-based meat substitutes, oat bars: 0.3%–0.8%;
Pet food, fish food: 0.1%–0.3%;
Food Mushroom Flavour is used in Instant noodle seasoning packets, sauce packets, hot pot base ingredients, seasoning powder, potato chips, popcorn, bread, meatballs, pasta sauce, fishing bait, etc
