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- noun The
unsaturated lactone 5H-furan-2-one
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The aroma of low-extraction white flour is dominated by vanilla, spicy, metallic, and fatty notes (from vanillin, a furanone, and fatty aldehydes), while whole-meal flour is richer in most of these and in addition has cucumber, fried, “sweaty,” and honey notes (from other fatty aldehydes and alcohols and phenylacetic acid).
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The aroma of low-extraction white flour is dominated by vanilla, spicy, metallic, and fatty notes (from vanillin, a furanone, and fatty aldehydes), while whole-meal flour is richer in most of these and in addition has cucumber, fried, “sweaty,” and honey notes (from other fatty aldehydes and alcohols and phenylacetic acid).
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Hentzer M, Riedel K, Rasmussen TB, Heydorn A, Andersen JB, et al. (2002) Inhibition of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm bacteria by a halogenated furanone compound.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010
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