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Record W4411114261 · doi:10.1016/j.lwt.2025.117983

Characterization, fermentation, and volatile profile of distilled beverages produced from defective maple syrup

2025· article· en· W4411114261 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueLWT · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicPlant-Derived Bioactive Compounds
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsFood scienceFermentationChemistryMapleDistilled waterBotanyBiologyChromatography

Abstract

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In this work, maple syrups with various flavor defects were physically and chemically characterized and assessed for their fermentative potential in alcoholic beverage production. The flavor defective maple syrups, as well as a control sample, were analyzed for soluble solids, pH, density, viscosity, transmittance, color (L, a*, b*), moisture, ash content, sugar profile, organic acids, and ethanol concentration. The defective maple syrups were fermented using Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 30°C for 204 hours. Maple syrups known for having flavor defects also have several differences in composition when compared to the regular commercial one (including but not limited to pH, viscosity, and color). In addition, the content of glucose, fructose, and sucrose occurred in different proportions, which is related to the types of defects. Overall, the amount of ethanol produced by VR1, VR11, VR4 Acid , VR5, and VR6 2 was statistically equal to that of the control (normal commercial maple syrup) with a fermentation efficiency of 95.15%. The faster fermentation kinetics for the VR1 and VR4 Acid shows the potential of these VRs for industrial processes. After distillation, the volatile profile of the defective maple syrups – VR1, VR11, VR4 Old, VR5, VR6 1 , and VR6 2 – were similar to the regular ones suggesting that defective maple syrups are suitable for producing distilled beverages with a desirable volatile composition.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.160
Threshold uncertainty score0.503

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it