Pure ethyl maltol is a white crystal powder with charred sweet frafgrance, widely used to increase sweet and flavor for foodstuff and also has the functions of acid inhibition, bitter inhibition and removing the fishy smell, rotproof, etc. Qingdao Hodias Flavor & Fragrances Co.,Ltd, investing USD600,000, introduces international latest technology and developed new generation of ethyl maltol whose flavour enhancing effect is increased four to six times.
In recent years, it is increasingly well valued in the market home and abroad and has extensive useage. We would have a brief description of its features in the application of food processing:

★Safety
      The ethyl maltol is marketing as per the stipulation of FCC(Food Chemical Code). Its serial number ,as foodstuff safe additive at Federal Drugs Administration, is :21 CFR 172.515. Its FEMA(Food Essence Manufacturer Association) Serial number is 3487. It's the product recognized by both European Communities/Scientific Committee of Food (EC/SCF) and Chinese Food Additives Association(CD).

★Flavour enhancing
      Ethyl maltol presents different cotton candy flavour in high concentration and has charred sweet fragrance and fruit odor. It has high solubility and can sublime at quite low temperatures, which makes it flavour enhancing feature that widely applied in ice cream, beverages, meat products, confectionery, etc. and highly enhance their fragrances.

★High performance
      If ethyl maltol is just considered as a enhancer in food processing, all the flavorings such as vanillin will have such function. But the real high performance of ethyl maltol is embodied in its performance in flavor improvement, which can thoroughly embody all sorts of flavor of food .
　★A.Improving performance of food raw materials. the manufacturer can't ensure the quality consistency of raw materials when purchasing. the quality of final product would be affected if no functional flavour enhancer added in the processing. The function of ethyl maltol ,in this respect ,is recognized by the specialists all over the world. It can well eliminate the miscellaneous flavour, unusual flavour and maintain pure flavour for a long time. In the processing of meat products, the pulp and meat feel of some chiled meat and nestling meat and nestling meat can not be compared with fresh meat but the addition of ethyl maltol can mostly shorten this gap in beween.
　★B.Coordination of product's integral flavor. There is a great variety of flavors in modern foodstuff and there are also diversified types of flavorings for manufacturers. But the expected effects would not be obtained either if not.
right flavoring selected or added by not right proportion. But ethyl matol is suitable for various foods and doesn't highlights its self fragrance but as an base stock to enhance, decorate and stabilize the integral flavor system to make it more perfect, smooth and coordinated.

★Reducibility
      The product can prevent adverse reaction as antioxidant and extedn the storage time for foodstuff.

★The cautions in operating procedure
　★A.The ethyl maltol can be made up as 2.5％ storage solution and then applied as per adding amount. The storage solution shoule be reserved in brownish glass bottle.(One gram ethyl matol can be solved in 56 ml water, 10ml ethanolk, 17 ml glycol, its melting point is 89-92℃)
　★B.Ethyl maltol will turn into purplish red in presence of ferrous chlouide and should be kept away from iron.