喜欢做猪肠佳肴的南方的同志们，现在有福音了。香菜解苦恼：）

喜欢做猪肠佳肴的南方的同志们，现在有福音了。一点香菜就可以解决苦恼：）



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Here’s a strange tale of two previously unrelated food products. First: chitlins, that delicacy made of fried pig intestines.* They’re well-loved throughout the South, especially during the upcoming holiday season. But the smell of them cooking inspires significantly less affection. Because the cooking process sometimes smells like, well, feces.

Researchers in Japan thought that cilantro could help. Because cilantro is used in a variety of cuisines around the world to mask smells, as well as to add distinctive flavors. And in a previous study, the research team had shown that cilantro can mask the cooking-chitlin stench.

In the new research, in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, they isolated cilantro’s volatile compounds and tested each one for its odor-fighting power. Many seemed to lessen the stink, but one in particular, according to human sniffers, entirely cancels out the odor.

It’s called (E,E)-2,4-Undecadienal. It works at a very low concentration—10 parts per billion—so you can’t smell the compound. It’s not masking the chitlin odor, it’s actually neutralizing it. So it’s not just better living through chemistry. It’s better chitlins too.

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• 我从来不吃猪肠,太多大油了。audio里最后那声猪叫很好玩。 -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 16:36:05

• 那你是北方人? -北京二号- ♀ (22 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 16:40:46

• ah yeah。 我是美国北方人，你是美国南方人。：））） -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (70 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 16:48:48

• Bad girl. -北京二号- ♀ (39 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 18:21:35

• hahaha... ok, i agree:)) -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 18:31:23

• cilantro - 胡荽葉解苦恼：）my crying need. -走马读人- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 17:25:46

• 猪肠下小酒，还有猪耳朵。老马老胖了。haha -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 17:44:35

• 太有趣了，学会了“chitlins”这个词，我喜欢cilantro。 -婉蕠- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 17:43:27

• 我也爱吃cilantro, 每周都吃。我们家种香菜，疯长。 -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 17:48:30

• Great writing. haha anything piggy I like, from nose to toes. Bu -falsetruth- ♀ (233 bytes) () 11/19/2010 postreply 12:31:43

• hahahahaha，笑死我了。 -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (151 bytes) () 11/19/2010 postreply 13:10:08

• haha they are the same thing? No wonder they smell similar -falsetruth- ♀ (147 bytes) () 11/19/2010 postreply 14:57:06

• I like Cilantro too. Thanks and have a great holiday season. -YuGong- ♂ (103 bytes) () 11/19/2010 postreply 19:15:22

• 出国前时儿卖猪肝吃，挺好吃的。含铁多,据说可以补血。 -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/19/2010 postreply 21:01:29