This study investigated the relationship between taste sensitivity, the frequency and the preference for eating foods rich in zinc, dietary habits, and restrained eating among Japanese female undergraduate students. Forty-three subjects between the ages of 20 and 22 participated in this study. After a taste-sensitivity test for sweetness and saltiness the students completed a food list indicati...

Animals use gustatory information to assess the suitability of potential food sources and make critical decisions on what to consume. For example, the taste of sugar generally signals a potent dietary source of carbohydrates. However, the intensity of the sensory response to a particular sugar, or "sweetness," is not always a faithful reporter of its nutritional value, and recent evidence sugge...

When allowed to choose between different macronutrients, most animals display a strong attraction toward carbohydrates compared with proteins. It remains uncertain, however, whether this food selection pattern depends primarily on the sensory properties intrinsic to each nutrient or, alternatively, metabolic signals can act independently of the hedonic value of sweetness to stimulate elevated s...

The appeal of sweet electronic cigarette flavors makes it important to identify the chemical compounds that contribute to their sweetness. While volatile chemicals that produce sweet aromas have been identified in e-liquids, there are no published reports of sugars or artificial sweeteners in commercial e-liquids. However, the sweetener sucralose is marketed as an e-liquid additive to commercia...

Abstract Participatory plant breeding and rapid sensory evaluation are effective techniques for organic cultivar development. Table beet is an important crop growers, geosmin, a volatile compound which confers earthy aroma, has been suggested as the attribute around hedonic liking of organized. Open pollinated table populations with diverse pigmentation low (LGC) or high (HGC) geosmin concentra...

BACKGROUND & AIMS To consider the hypothesis that addiction to food, or more specifically sucrose, plays a role in obesity and eating disorders. METHODS By considering the relevant literature a series of predictions were examined, derived from the hypothesis that addiction to sucrose consumption can develop. Fasting should increase food cravings, predominantly for sweet items; cravings should...

This study was aimed at establishing optimized conditions for hot water extraction of roselle beverage (soborodo) from its calyces as well as the degree of beverage sweetness in the commercial practice. The dried calyces/water ratios involved in the commercial practice ranged between 1:57 and 1:71 (w/v) while the sweetness level of the beverage ranged between 11.2 and 13.3 °Brix. The indices fo...

Flies have taste cells specifically sensitive to sweetness. It has been suggested that the cells possess two types of receptor sites covering the receptive field of sweetness. By affinity electrophoresis with the site-specific inhibitory polysaccharides, two types of sugar-binding protein were isolated from the labellar extract of the blowfly. These proteins showed consistent sugar-binding spec...