Basics of Flavoring and Flavoring Concentrates for Flavored Waters Cont'd 1

Defining flavors in the world of flavoring concentrates for flavored water and other applications

• The role of your senses in the perception of flavoring and flavoring concentrates for all applications including flavored water:  
• Touch and flavoring drops for all applications not including flavored waters      
• Visual for all applications not including flavored waters  
• Taste for all applications especially flavored waters and other applications
• Smell for all applications
• Trigemical for all applications not including flavored waters but for all other applications
• Mouth feel in all applications except flavored waters, teas and coffees

Perception is the sum of all totals when it comes to flavoring and all applications.  Flavored water uses only a few of the senses compared to other applications.  Hot and cold temperatures also cause other responses to your sensory stimuli.  Flavors and flavor concentrates builds levels of the flavoring experience.  In a flavored water the first thing you notice is the aroma, followed by the taste.  In a dessert, first you notice the dessert, then you smell it and finally you tastes it.  Trigenical are the nerves that actually feel the texture of the fruit and their flavor components.  Your senses are in battle between sweet and sour.  Sweet in flavoring as well as flavoring concentrates is actually desired while bitter and sour is not. 

The tongue trumps the nose when it comes to sensory perceptions. They include in simple terms, taste buds with receptor cells.  Sweetness flavoring for flavored water for example is very important.  We go towards things that are sweeter and tend to move away from things bitter and sour. Our bodies are hard wired to go after things that are sweet.  The tongue plays a main role in sensory perception to flavors and flavor concentrates.

The nose on the other hand is more dynamic.

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