ABSTRACT: Nowadays, milk tablets are considered favorable due to several advantages, including good taste and chewing properties, ease of transport, increased bioavailability, ease of storage, stability of active ingredients and improved functional properties.This study seeks to investigate the characteristics of fermented milk tablets in relation to its use as a beverage producing tablet. The ...

Chewing gum, being a pleasant formulation, requires effective taste-masking techniques, such as encapsulation methods along with an amalgamation of flavors and sweeteners. Taste-masked medicated chewing gum offers palatable way administering drugs dietary supplements to children old-aged people. The concept development provides sustained modified release actives through various microencapsulati...

This study examines consumer perceptions of the qualities considered in purchasing decisions and preferences for bananas traditional markets Pangkalpinang. research was carried out a predetermined market Pangkalpinang City. used survey method as its primary design. Purposive sampling used, sample size 100 respondents. The attributes analyzed were tasted, fruit skin color, size, number per comb....

 Background: Essential oils of medicinal plants such as chamomile are very complex natural mixtures which can contain compounds at quite different concentrations and some of their components have antioxidant and antimicrobial activities in foodstuff. Objective: The antioxidant and antimicrobial effects of chamomile essential oil in cake preparation were evaluated during 75 days of storag...

Flavor perception arises from the central integration of peripherally distinct sensory inputs (taste, smell, texture, temperature, sight, and even sound of foods). The results from psychophysical and neuroimaging studies in humans are converging with electrophysiological findings in animals and a picture of the neural correlates of flavor processing is beginning to emerge. Here we used event-re...

Objective: To identify and compare parental Food Choice Motives (FCM) between healthy weight and overweight/obese children. Methods: The study used an explanatory sequential mixed methods design conducting quantitative survey followed by participant interviews. Forty parents of healthy weight children and 42 parents of overweight/obese children (6-17 years) completed FCM surveys in their homes ...

The cocoa seeds from Brazilian Amazon are recognized for the high international market value in addition to desirable aroma and taste. We aimed identify yeast cultures a natural fermentation process one of Amazonian regions great importance beans market. Natural was carried out seven days according methodologies producer at 24 h intervals, seed samples were collected physical-chemical microbiol...

Every day, people struggle to make healthy eating decisions. Nutrition labels have been used to help people properly balance the tradeoff between healthiness and taste, but research suggests that these labels vary in their effectiveness. Here, we investigated the cognitive mechanism underlying value-based decisions with nutrition labels as modulators of value. More specifically, we used a binar...

extended abstract introduction hospitals are the most important and complex social units which are intended to protect the lives of people and to treat and improve them. with the passage of time and progress in science, hospitals have been equipped with more advanced technology and facilities. more active beds in hospitals are indications of specialized manpower, equipment and facilities for th...

Complementary neurophysiological recordings in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and functional neuroimaging in human subjects show that the primary taste cortex in the rostral insula and adjoining frontal operculum provides separate and combined representations of the taste, temperature and texture (including viscosity and fat texture) of food in the mouth independently of hunger and thus of re...