SENSORY ANALYSIS OF LOW FAT STRAWBERRY ICE CREAMS
PREPARED WITH DIFFERENT FLAVOR CHEMICALS
AND FAT MIMETICS
Current demand revealed consumers want healthier ice creams. Fat mimetics are
already used in manufacture oflow-fat and fat-free ice creams. However, the use of fat
mimetics affected flavor and texture characteristics of ice cream, which results in
decreased overall acceptability by consumers. The initial objective of this study was to
investigate the release behavior of five strawberry flavor compounds in ice creams with
Simplesse
®
, Litesse
®
and Litesse
®
/ Simplesse
®
mixes using descriptive analysis. The
subsequent objective was to reformulate an artificial strawberry flavor added to lower-fat
ice creams with a special fat mimetic and todetermine the consumer acceptance of the
reformulated low-fat ice creams for developing “better-for-you” ice creams.
A mixed-ANOVA analysis found that fat content, fat mimetics and flavor
formulation had a significant influence on the perception of furaneol™ (cooked sugar
flavor), α-ionone (violet flavor) and γ-undecalactone (peach flavor) but there was no
interaction between ice cream type and flavor formulation for the three flavors.
Furaneol
TM
was perceived more strongly infull-fat ice cream, while cis-3-hexen-1-ol,
α-ionone, γ-undecalactone and ethyl-3-methyl-3-phenylglycidate were perceived more
strongly in low-fat ice cream. Ice creams with Simplesse
®
and full-fat ice cream had