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Non-volatile taste components of several cultivated mushrooms

Wen Li1, Zhen Gu, Yan Yang

  • 1National Engineering Research Center of Edible Fungi; Key Laboratory of Edible Fungi Resources and Utilization (South), Ministry of Agriculture, the People's Republic of China.

Food Chemistry
|September 24, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
5′-NucleotideCultivated mushroomsEquivalent umami concentrationFree amino acidOrganic acidSoluble sugar/polyol

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