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  • noun Plural form of pyrone.

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  • In addition to adding a distinctly alkaline taste (like that of baking soda), alkaline treatment reduces the levels of roasty, caramel-like molecules (pyrazines, thiazoles, pyrones, furaneol) and of astringent, bitter phenolics, which now bond to each other to form flavorless dark pigments.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • In addition to adding a distinctly alkaline taste (like that of baking soda), alkaline treatment reduces the levels of roasty, caramel-like molecules (pyrazines, thiazoles, pyrones, furaneol) and of astringent, bitter phenolics, which now bond to each other to form flavorless dark pigments.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

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