C&EN Food Chemistry

The chemistry of smoking foods – in C&EN

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Promo image for a graphic on the chemistry of smoking foods. The full graphic with alt-text is available at the link.
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Humans have been smoking foods for almost 2 million years, but what chemical compounds give smoky flavours and what are the reactions that generate them? The latest edition of Periodic Graphics in C&EN takes a look. View the full graphic on the C&EN site.

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