At first glance these two words seem to indicate the same effect food has on the person enjoying something good to eat. Consumers and the food industry often use these words interchangeably, however they are different. Flavour refers to the smell and to the texture of food, as well as the taste of food.  Taste is what takes place in your mouth when food or drink make a connection with your taste buds.  These taste receptors recognize the basic tastes of sweet, sour, bitter salty and umami. 

Taste is one of the body’s five senses, but it does not include the sense of smell and that is a big part of what makes each flavour unique. Flavour is the fulfilling experience of taste and aroma combining together with the texture of some foods.  Aroma plays a significant part of the sensory experience through flavour.

If you are looking to improve your taste and improve balance, depth and fullness in the taste or
to boost certain flavours of a dish/product by adding STA at a dosage of 0.1% to 0.6% of the final weight of the product should do the trick.

Natural flavour enhancers can be costly. However the Scelta Taste Accelerator is used in very low dosages, making it very cost competitive to MSG/AYE and I+G.   Also If you wish to keep your product recipe free of artificial ingredients,  Scelta STA is a natural product made during the growing and preserving process of white button mushrooms. STA is your natural choice.

Depending on the application, STA can be used as an alternative for MSG/AYE/I+G and sometimes in combination with other natural flavour ingredients thereby replacing artificial enhancing products completely.

The shelf life from date of production of the STA liquid is 3 months cooled, 24 months as supplied frozen. STA powder and STA CC have an ambient shelf life of 24 months.

No, from our experience we’ve seen that the effect of STA still has a good effect on the taste (perception), even after sterilisation.

Our umami ingredients are made from the stems and blanching water of the mushrooms growing and preserving industry. Our liquid version is 100% mushroom material.  Our powders are spray dried and only have the addition of a maize based maltodextrin processing aid.

When you add our STA products to various applications it will provide balance and dept. It will have an impact on the total taste system of a product/dish, based on the umami principle.

Microbiological analyses are conducted for every batch.