Testing a Food Taste with Taste Sensor

Taste Recognition: Food for Thought

The ability to identify food that is nutrient-rich and avoid toxic substances is essential for an animal's survival. Although olfaction and vision contribute to food detection, the gustatory system acts as a final checkpoint control for food acceptance or rejection behavior. Recent studies with model organisms such as mice and Drosophila have identified candidate taste receptors and examined th...

Taste preferences and food intake.

Sensory responses to the taste, smell, and texture of foods help determine food preferences and eating habits. However, sensory responses alone do not predict food consumption. The view that a "sweet tooth" leads to obesity through excess sugar consumption is overly narrow. In reality, there are multiple links between taste perceptions, taste preferences, food preferences, and food choices and ...

Nordic Food Markets – a taste for competition

A novel sweet taste cell-based sensor.

In this paper, a novel sweet taste cell-based sensor is proposed for tastants detection. The human colorectal carcinoma NCI-H716 cell lines, which express α-gustducin and sweet taste receptor T1R1/T1R3, are cultured on the carbon screen-printed electrode with the pre-coated poly-L-ornithine and lamimin for adhesion in extracellular matrix. The electrode is placed into a fluidic and environment ...

Electronic Tongue : a New Taste Sensor

Taste has an important role in the development of oral pharmaceutical formulation. With respect to patient acceptability and compliance, taste is one of the prime factors determining the market penetration and commercial success of oral formulations, especially in pediatric medicine. Taste assessment is one important quality-control tool for evaluating taste-masked formulations. Hence, pharmace...