misflavour
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[edit]misflavour (third-person singular simple present misflavours, present participle misflavouring, simple past and past participle misflavoured)
- To impair the flavour of.
- 1976, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, page 9:
- The flavour thresholds of the 239 compounds examined varied over a range of 2 x 1012 , and on occasion, compounds of high chemical purity (99% +) were organoleptically impure or even misflavoured.
- 1981, Morten Christian Meilgaard, Beer Flavour, page 24:
- This means that impurities present at the ppu level can easily misflavour the compound under study.
- 1986, Ian Douglas Morton, Alexander Joseph MacLeod, Food Flavours - Part 2, page 112:
- 'Chemically pure' compounds may be strongly misflavoured by contaminants, and in some cases the threshold measured may inadvertently be that of an impurity.
Noun
[edit]misflavour (countable and uncountable, plural misflavours)
- The state of being misflavoured.
- 1997, Christopher G.J. Baker, Industrial Drying of Foods, page 90:
- Powders produced in those days were, compared with today's standards, of poor flowability and solubility, difficult to handle, dusty, and prone to misflavour as a result of degradation in the drying process.
- 2010, Steven Erikson, The Tales Of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Vol 1, page 102:
- Durhang had a way of making one ravenous, sufficient to overcome the dreadful misflavours of such malodorous staples.