喜歡做豬腸佳肴的南方的同誌們，現在有福音了。香菜解苦惱：）

喜歡做豬腸佳肴的南方的同誌們，現在有福音了。一點香菜就可以解決苦惱：）



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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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• 我從來不吃豬腸,太多大油了。audio裏最後那聲豬叫很好玩。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 16:36:05

• 那你是北方人? -北京二號- ♀ (22 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 16:40:46

• ah yeah。 我是美國北方人，你是美國南方人。：））） -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (70 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 16:48:48

• Bad girl. -北京二號- ♀ (39 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 18:21:35

• hahaha... ok, i agree:)) -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 18:31:23

• cilantro - 胡荽葉解苦惱：）my crying need. -走馬讀人- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 17:25:46

• 豬腸下小酒，還有豬耳朵。老馬老胖了。haha -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 17:44:35

• 太有趣了，學會了“chitlins”這個詞，我喜歡cilantro。 -婉蕠- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/18/2010 postreply 17:43:27

• 我也愛吃cilantro, 每周都吃。我們家種香菜，瘋長。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (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。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (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

• 出國前時兒賣豬肝吃，挺好吃的。含鐵多,據說可以補血。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/19/2010 postreply 21:01:29