A sweet, caramellic aroma chemical closely related to maltol, with a warm sugary character reminiscent of cotton candy, cooked strawberry jam, and burnt sugar. Slightly more fruity and less powdery than maltol itself, with a soft candied lift.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 778.
White crystalline powder or granular crystals.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and most flavor oils at the rate of 3 to 8°.
Caramellic-sweet, but rather pungent odor of good tenacity.
First sour, then sweet, caramellic-fruity, bread-like taste, depending upon the concentration used. Sour taste is mostly noticed in very high concentrations of the material.
Produced from Lactose via its galactoside.