(He also founded Cacao Biotechnologies, which serves as the laboratory for his array of flavour experiments).
The glorious flip side of this complexity is that there's an array of flavour notes to be explored.
Proteins and their constituents, the 20 free amino acids found in all living things, and sugars react as the temperature rises to produce an enormous array of flavour chemicals.
Initially Mattes found that people couldn't quite tell fat tastes when given a broad array of flavours.
P&G produces its Crest brand of toothpaste in a mouth-watering array of flavours, including lemon, tea, strawberry, salt and honey.
A vast array of flavouring ingredients are used – virtually anything with a strong flavour which isn't actually poisonous (at least not very poisonous): watercress, fennel, liverwort, marshmallow roots, scurvy grass, cloves, borage, marjoram, ferns, flowers, and so on.
The major snack companies have cottoned on to the world of gourmet crisps, of course, and now offer a dazzling array of flavours in cleverly designed packets that suggest a more luxurious crisp experience.
Visitors to the Friand Cake Company in Edinburgh are tempted with a huge array of flavours including chocolate, fig and amaretto, and raspberry and pistachio – and baker Karen Kennedy's gooey fillings add a vivid splash of colour.
There can be real taste benefit to this approach too: instead of masking food with an array of flavours, you're forced to really appreciate the subtle qualities of the food.
It was amazing to feel the warm fresh milk in my hands as it transformed from gentle liquid to soft, solid curds and then, with time, witness the development of such an array of flavours and textures.
Leadership is something of a buzzword these days, a concept which has seeped into academia from the corporate world and seems to come in an unending array of flavours: academic, research, thought, moral, business, strategic, and so on.
