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Tea aroma formation
Besides water, tea is one of the most popular beverages around the world. The chemical ingredients and biological activities of tea have beensummarized recently. The current review summarizes tea aroma compounds and their formation in green, black, and oolong tea. The flavor of teacan be divided into two categories: taste (non-volatile compounds) and aroma (volatile compounds). All of these aroma molecules are generatedfrom carotenoids, lipids, glycosides, etc. precursors, and also from Maillard reaction. In the current review, we focus on the formation mechanismof main aromas during the tea manufacturing process.
Keywords: Tea; Aroma; Formation; Volatile; Taste1
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