Cancelled Aroma - the Chemistry behind Odour
Course content
The course describes the role of aroma components in foods, and gives a thorough review of techniques for sampling and analysis of aroma. The relationship between the aroma profile and the sensory quality of a product is an important issue of the course, and includes working with the complexity of the chemical background for odour impressions. The use of multivariate techniques - chemometrics - to relate aroma analysis to sensory evaluation data is an integrated part of the course.
Through practical work within aroma analysis and sensory descriptive analysis, the course will aim to enable the students to answer questions like: Why do low alcoholic beers taste different? Why does addition of milk change the aroma of coffee dramatically? Can aroma analyses be used to make a perfect copy of e.g. a leading product? Can the choice of frying oil affect the aroma of the fried product? How does heat treatment affect the aroma of a product? Chemometrics and univariate data analysis will be important tools.
Knowledge:
- Understand the complexity of the chemical backgroud for odour
- Understand the principles and methods being used to measure and interpret aroma
- Know the commonly used techniques for aroma analysis
- Know the basic sensory concepts and evaluation techniques
- Know how results obtained through aroma analysis relate to measured sensory quality.
Skills:
- Evaluate possibilities and limitations of aroma analysis for food quality analysis and the relation to sensory quality through multivariate statistics
- Treat GC-MS data using the most advanced techniques
- Hands-on experience with aroma analysis and sensory descriptive analysis, including planning experimental setups, sampling, panel training and general practical laboratory work
- Ability to apply sensory methodology and assess reliability of the obtained data
- Ability to perform suitable data analysis on instrumental and sensory data.
Competences:
- Reflect on the role of aroma and sensory properties in quality of food
- Cooperate with fellow students in a project group, including planning, excecuting and reporting experiments
- Reflect on working in groups.
A combination of self-studies and e-learning before the
attendance part of the course will give the student the basic tools
and knowledge required for the course, including the theoretical
background on techniques and instrumentation for aroma analysis of
food as well as generic sensory analysis.
Through practical projects, where the students work in groups,
measurement of aroma will be carried out. Sensory analysis will
also be carried out and the results obtained using the two types of
measurements should be correlated using chemometrics. Based on the
practical work, a written report is prepared. The student should
also reflect on the processes in problem-oriented group research.
A seminar will be held, where the students present their products
and results to each other. Theoretical exercises based on
authentical datasets a.o. will be arranged. Before the course
start, the participants must read selected scientific literature
and complete the E-learning materials.
The participants are expected to have basic skills within food
chemistry, sensory science and chemometrics.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is highly
recommended, including experience with larger projects,
presentation of data and skills in academic writing.
If the qualifications are not met, students should expect a high
workload to acquire the needed level of knowledge through the
E-learning.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Oral examination, 15 minWritten assignment
- Type of assessment details
- The exam consists of two parts:
1. the oral exam (no preparation time, no aids allowed) counts 50% towards the final grade
2. the written group report with clear indication of individual contributions delivered approx. one week after the course counts 50%.
The final grade will be submitted after the written report has been evaluated. Both parts must be passed in order for the student to pass the exam. The questions for the oral exam will be provided in the first week of the course. - Aid
- Without aids
No aids allowed for the oral exam.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Criteria for exam assessment
Cf. Learning Outcomes
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 16
- Preparation
- 53
- Theory exercises
- 10
- E-Learning
- 50
- Project work
- 76
- Exam
- 1
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NFOK16002U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Placement
- Summer
- Schedulegroup
-
Summer course 4 weeks in August, 7 August - 5 September 2023 (weeks 32-35).
Week 32: Reading & E-learning: 7 - 11 August 2023
Weeks 33-34: Teaching at campus: 14 - 25 August 2023
Week 35: Report writing and exam: 28 August - 5 September 2023 - Capacity
- 30
The number of seats may be reduced in the late registration period - Studyboard
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting department
- Department of Food Science
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Mikael Agerlin Petersen (3-6f63724268717166306d7730666d)
- Bodil Helene Allesen-Holm (4-656b646b4369727267316e7831676e)
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