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Keith R Cadwallader is a Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois. His research focuses on aroma chemistry, flavor analysis, and sensory evaluation of food and beverages. He has contributed extensively to understanding interactions between food components and their sensory properties, particularly in plant-based foods, distilled spirits, and processed agricultural products. His work employs advanced analytical techniques like gas chromatography-olfactometry and sensory-directed flavor analysis.
Key research areas include aroma stability during storage, ethanol’s impact on flavor perception, protein-flavor interactions, and volatile compound degradation in foods. He has explored topics such as coffee postharvest changes, chocolate processing effects, and aroma components in traditional beverages like tequila and baijiu.
- ACS Fellow (2021)
His publications span over 188 peer-reviewed articles, with recent emphasis on plant-based protein applications, distilled spirit chemistry, and sensory evaluation methodologies. Collaborations include studies on flavor retention in functional foods and the mitigation of off-flavors in processed foods.
Cadwallader’s work bridges fundamental chemistry with practical food science, addressing challenges in product development, quality assurance, and sustainable food processing.
