What is the science behind the tastes and smells of food?

[CGallin]

I have an interest into looking into the chemistry that goes into making the foods today. I'd like to know what goes into the tastes and smells. So I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as a good jumping off point for this topic. Any articles or books would be great. I have access to SciFinder so any articles on that would be great. Thanks for your help and suggestions everyone.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Here's a review article that you may find useful:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/cr900105w

 

[CGallin]

To further define what I am looking for I would like to point out that I wondering about food chemistry as a career field. I'm starting my study of chemistry in undergraduate and was looking into this.

 

[chemisttree]

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Good luck!