This article is about the use as a food additive. For use as an aversive agent, see Bitterant.
A bittering agent is a flavoring agent added to a food or beverage to impart a bitter taste, possibly in addition to other effects. While many substances are bitter to a greater or lesser degree, a few substances are used specifically for their bitterness, especially to balance other flavors, such as sweetness. Notable beverage examples include caffeine, found naturally in tea and coffee and added to many soft drinks, hops in beer, and quinine in tonic water.
Food examples include bitter melon, which may be mixed into a stir fry or soup for its bitter flavor.
Potent bittering agents may also be added to dangerous products as aversive agents to make them foul tasting, so as to prevent accidental poisoning. Examples including anti-freeze, household cleaning products[1] and pesticides such as slug pellets. In general dangerous products with bright colours, which may be appealing to children, often contain agents such as denatonium. However, the efficacy of using bittering agents for this purpose is not conclusive.
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A bitteringagent is a flavoring agent added to a food or beverage to impart a bitter taste, possibly in addition to other effects. While many substances...
(or bitteringagent) is a chemical that is added to a product to make it smell or taste bitter. Bitterants are commonly used as aversive agents to discourage...
most beers, ale typically has a bitteringagent to balance the malt and act as a preservative. Ale was originally bittered with gruit, a mixture of herbs...
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ingestion. The bitteringagent is thought to stop ingestion as part of the human defense against ingestion of harmful substances is rejection of bitter tasting...
rationale that antifreeze sold online would not contain the added bitteringagent in commercial chemicals making the ethylene glycol poison detectable...
smaller amounts, quinine is an ingredient of tonic drinks, acting as a bitteringagent. Cinchonism can occur from therapeutic doses of quinine, either from...
resulted in many deaths of pets and humans. Some products contain a bitteringagent that reduces but does not eliminate the risk of accidental poisoning...
kambing), lightly grilled goat meat traditionally eaten with papaít, a bitteringagent usually of bile or chyme extracted from the internal organs of the...
leaf and in between it and the gel. When dried, it has been used as a bitteringagent in commerce (alcoholic beverages) [21 CFR 172.510. Scientific names...
to cause uterus stimulation. In Europe, burdock root was used as a bitteringagent in beer before the widespread adoption of hops for this purpose. The...
and mouthfeel. The flavour may include the degree of bitterness of a beer due to bitteringagents such as hops, roasted barley, or herbs; and the sweetness...
has been the predominant bitteringagent of beer for hundreds of years. The flowers' resins are responsible for beer's bitterness and their ability to extend...
inhalants that can be easily abused, many manufacturers have added a bitteringagent to deter people from inhaling the product. Some U.S. states, as well...
and flavored with the powdered leaves and bark of gesho, a hop-like bitteringagent which is a species of buckthorn. A sweeter, less-alcoholic version...
find the taste of Beer too bitter. In contrast to beer, Jillz does not contain hops. Hops are used as the bitteringagent of beer. In August 2021, it...
addition to barley. Some beer is produced that uses bitter melon instead of hops as the bitteringagent. Chinese media reported in 2001 that as many as 95%...
regulator Flavor Amino acid of condiment Vitamin C as an antioxidant Bitteringagent Calories: 16 kcal Protein: 0.1 - 0.3 g Lipids: 0 g Glucide (Carbohydrate):...
areas. Traditionally, it has been used as one of the flavoring and bitteringagents of gruit ales, a type of unhopped, fermented grain beverage. In Vietnam...
via various bitteringagents. Common bitter foods and beverages include coffee, unsweetened cocoa, South American mate, coca tea, bitter gourd, uncured...
Furnari, Chris. "Hoppy Hydration: Non-Alc Seltzers Made With Beer's BitteringAgent Provide Alternative To Alcohol". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-06-11. "Is...
recognize the antifreeze manufacturing industry's commitment to add a bitteringagent to products so that animals would not die poisonous deaths, the subject...
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A blood agent is a toxic chemical agent that affects the body by being absorbed into the blood. Blood agents are fast-acting, potentially lethal poisons...
They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to which, in addition to bitterness, they impart floral, fruity, or...
classes of aversive agents: bitterants, chemicals producing a bitter flavor, and pungent agents, chemicals producing an unpleasantly pungent flavor. Denaturation...
alcohol – ethanol rendered unfit to drink by mixing with methanol or bitteringagents Sterno Moonshine and other homemade alcohols, including two or more...
jurisdictions waive the tax when an agent has been added to the ethanol to render it unfit to drink. These include bitteringagents such as denatonium benzoate...
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