环境与良好的公司治理
全球主要的健康问题之一是体重超标,这可能导致糖尿病、心血管疾病、心脏病或中风。许多国家已经通过法律来减少食物中的糖、脂肪和盐的含量。大多数消费者支持这些法律,但同时,他们也不想失去品味。这就是为什么Symrise开发了一系列天然口味平衡解决方案的原因——到2023年,仅还原糖产品的风味解决方案就具有约11亿美元的市场潜力。Symrise的研究人员结合了数世纪的知识和数字方法来追踪这些成分。在过去的几年中,Symrise已经开发出一种高her number of natural taste-balancing solutions compared to other companies in the industry that are predominantly based on renewable natural raw material sources. In creating these, the company’s researchers and developers are faced with two challenges. For one, they have to identify natural flavoring substances that can close the taste gap that appears in reduced-sugar food products – that is no simple task. Even though 25,000 of the world’s approximately 400,000 known natural flavoring substances are available at least in small quantities in natural substance libraries, only a few dozen of those are currently considered taste balancing. The second challenge lies in the combination: Although there is a relatively low number of substances, there are countless different ways to combine them. The right mixing ratios and correctly processing the ingredients are key here.
很长一段时间以来,Symrise一直在系统地研究以植物为基础的产品,这些产品在文献中被描述为口味平衡或口感宜人。研究人员确定和测试可能的候选人,他们还检查他们是否可以来源或培养负责任的。在与德国比科尔公司(BiColl)和柏林Charité中国生命科学研究所(ICL)的合作中,该公司发现了这些成分令人惊讶的灵感来源。在德国联邦教育和研究部的支持下,SimLeap联合项目的科学家们梳理了大约4万种古老的中国配方,以改善口味。为了达到这个目的,原始的书面作品被扫描,现在被翻译成现代汉语,放在ICL的一个电子图书馆里。借助语言学方法和基于人工智能的搜索引擎,研究人员发现了潜在的植物原料、食谱和方法,可以用来减少或改善传统食谱中不受欢迎的口味。基于此,BiColl和Symrise生产了提取物,然后使用专利高温超高效液相色谱法“LC&nspb;Taste”对提取物进行了测试®” for taste-modulating properties. The outcome was a variety of novel flavor solutions that balance out and improve tastes naturally and that make an important contribution to a healthy diet with less sugar, salt and fat.