Reducing sugar intake is a major public health goal but many consumers are reluctant to use low calorie sweeteners. Two studies were conducted in healthy adults aged 18 to 65 to investigate whether addition of culinary spices to foods reduced in sugar could preserve hedonic liking. Test foods, black tea, oatmeal, and apple crisp, were prepared in full sugar (FS), reduced sugar (RS), and reduced...

The nutrition transition relates to broad patterns of diet, activity and body composition that have defined our nutritional status in various stages of history. The world is rapidly shifting from a dietary period in which the higher income countries were dominated by patterns of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NR-NCDs; while the lower and middle world were dominated by receding fam...

Two symposia at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 70th Scientific Sessions, held on 25–29 June 2010, in Orlando, Florida, addressed aspects of the food industry’s approach to satisfying the desire for sweets. One examined noncaloric/nonnutritive sweeteners and the other fructose, and a number of research presentations addressed other aspects of the relationship between diabetes and nutrit...

Here, I review the article "Changes in taste neurons support an adaptive behavior in cockroaches" by Wada-Katsumata et al. (2013). Their article elucidates the mechanism by which some cockroaches avoid eating poisoned bait: a change in the response properties of cells that transduce the tastant glucose and related sugars. Specifically, the data show that in cockroaches that avoid glucose consum...

Taste-modifying proteins are a natural alternative to artificial sweeteners and flavor enhancers and have been used in some cultures for centuries. The taste-modifying protein, miraculin, has the unusual property of being able to modify a sour taste into a sweet taste. Here, we report the use of a plant expression system for the production of miraculin. A synthetic gene encoding miraculin was p...

The Fate of the Saccharin Impurities Toluene-2-Sulphonamide and 2,3-Dihydrobenz( d]isothiazole 1,l-Dioxide in the Rat ANDREW G. R E W I C K * and LOUISE M. BALL? *Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 3 TU, U.K., and ?Pharmacology Branch, N.I.E.H.S., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, U.S.A. The non-nutritive sweetener, saccharin (2,3-dihydro-3-oxobenz[d]isothiazole 1,l...

In this paper we introduce the DOLCE upper level ontology, the first module of a Foundational Ontologies Library being developed within the WonderWeb project. DOLCE is presented here in an intuitive way; the reader should refer to the project deliverable for a detailed axiomatization. A comparison with WordNet's top-level taxonomy of nouns is also provided, which shows how DOLCE, used in additi...

By applying the Corpus Pattern Analysis procedure (CPA, Hanks 2004) to the analysis of concordances for ca 1000 English, Italian and Spanish verbs conducted with the aim of acquiring their most recurrent patterns, intended as corpus-derived argument structures with specification of the expected semantic type for each argument position (i.e. [[Human]] attends [[Event]]), we compiled a list of ab...