Patent ID: 9417221
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: A23L,A23V,B01F,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method for formulating a food additive, the method comprising: identifying a first set of chemical compounds of an averse food ingredient; identifying a second set of chemical compounds of a flavorful food ingredient; and selecting a formulation for the food additive, wherein the formulation includes a new, third set of chemical compounds, different from the first set of chemical compounds and the second set of chemical compounds, and defined individual chemical compound quantities in which to mix the third set of chemical compounds, such that an olfactory perception of a mixture of the averse food ingredient, the flavorful food ingredient and the food additive is the same as an olfactory perception of only the flavorful food ingredient, and wherein the selecting comprises solving an optimization problem stated as wherein P(g+h+a) is a first vector projection in a perceptual space that corresponds to a set of vectors in a physicochemical space for a combination of the first set of chemical compounds, the second set of chemical compounds, and the third set of chemical compounds, P(g) is a vector projection in the perceptual space that corresponds to a vector in the physicochemical space for the second set of chemical compounds, and w is a vector in the perceptual space that corresponds to an olfactory white.