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Taste - Science topic

The ability to detect chemicals through gustatory receptors in the mouth, including those on the TONGUE; the PALATE; the PHARYNX; and the EPIGLOTTIS.
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What are some traditional or innovative recipes that feature foxtail millets, and how can they be adapted to suit different tastes and preferences? Are there any cultural or historical associations with foxtail millets that can help promote their consumption and appreciation?
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There is also another collection of millet recipes that could be helpful: https://www.millets.res.in/m_recipes/Millets_Recipes-A_Healthy_choice.pdf
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I was suggested to think of consumer behavior/psychology and tasting/consumption experience of some food in diferent national cuisine.
May I get some detailed directions or case studies on this subject?
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The questions depend on biological variables such as age, gender, family size, as well as the national wealth of fish and animals, as well as agriculture and the types of plants that characterize countries.
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My research is about convert agricultural waste into food using food processing techniques. My existing objectives are production, cost analysis, and evaluation of product in terms of color, taste, aroma, etc. I need at least 1 or 2 objectives more.
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+1 objective; agricultural waste recycling
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There are cases of complete absence of smell, hearing or vision at birth, but none of total bilateral absence of vestibular function. What about taste? It seems so rare it is doubtful if it genuinely exists.
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In my 35 yes of practise in ENT I have not seen a single case of congenital ageusia
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I am currently using capsacin alkaloid via extraction process of acid base extraction process from red chillies. So in it at final stage got a light cream colored powder. Whose test was not spicy. But it was a little salty.
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That's not capsaicin compounds. After an initial purification, a taste test would leave you in no doubt that you purified capsaicins!!
Although it is an alkaloid, it is a weak base since the nitrogen is really bound as an amide.
I used toluene to extract capsaicin followed by alumina and finally C18. If you are following the compound by taste, ethanol extraction may be a better choice.
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Getting adequate nutrition can be a challenge as get older. With age, the number of calories need begins to decline. Every calorie consumes must be packed with nutrition in order to hit the mark. In addition, the ability to taste food declines, blunting appetite. Some foods become difficult to chew or digest. Several key nutrients, in particular, may be in short supply as get older.
So, what nutrients and vitamins can benefit us with aging? And how to get enough?
All comments and contributions are welcome.
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I want to gain some information on volatiles(aroma) and non-volatiles (Taste) molecules and methods of analysis in Cocoa Butter
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Thank You Rani
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Sustainable proteins such as insects are on the rise. I am wondering if there are researchers or groups out there working on specifically improving Taste?
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While the practice of eating insects has been around since prehistoric times it’s only in more recent years, as we search for sustainable food sources, that edible insects have hopped into the spotlight. University of Adelaide researchers are creating a new tool that will help people understand what it’s like to eat one of the most sustainable and protein-rich food sources on the planet: edible insects.
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I would like to taste the antimicrobial activity and determine the Minimal Inhibitory Concentration (MIC)of vegetable oil, can any one help me to know how i dilute my oil to have different cocentrations ?
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Nnyeneime Bassey thanks a lot
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Im conducting a study where I want to investigate consumer attitudes and purchase intention via questionnaires. I know that product related attitudes (price, taste etc) affects purchase intention, but I'm interested in investigating other areas. Do I need to include these product related attitudes in my questionnaire and control for them in my analysis, or can i disregard/exclude these variables entirely from my study?
Thanks in advance.
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We already know that control variables seek to rule out alternative answers to those sought in the study. They are factors that influence the dependent and independent variables but are not the object of the study. The differentiating aspect of control variables is that they are considered alien to the model, unrelated to the hypotheses being tested (SPECTOR; BRANNICK, 2011). However, many studies include control variables with no specific theoretical interest, sometimes without a clear justification for their use or present reduced comments. Given this context, I suggest pondering whether there is a theoretical and methodological assumption that justifies the need for the inclusion of these variables.
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What are the most important primary and/or secondary metabolites which contribute to a perishable taste in tomato fruits?
Any idea is appreciated.
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Thank you for providing useful information.
Could you kindly give me an idea of important metabolites contributing to the perishable taste?
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Sugar is sweet & loved by all, but doctors campaign not to take it after a certain age. If an octogenarian wanna taste sweetmeat everyday, what to tell her? Again, it's believed that almost all sweeteners are harmful, even carcinogenic!! Your opinion, please.
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The best and safest artificial sweeteners are erythritol, xylitol, stevia leaf extracts, neotame, and monk fruit extract Md Rabiul Alam
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I tried to cover the bitterness of the bioactive compounds of a medicinal plant by encapsulating them using the nanophytosome technique putting them in a sweet food product, but it did not work.. Please suggest an aprroved way to overlap this problem for the food product or the bioactive compounds phytosome.
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I want to formulate l-carnitine tartrate (as 500 mg l-carnitine) as chewable tablets. Does anyone have experience in this field?
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Ok.This makes sense.Try to add flavor (peppermint flavor for example)
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I Do academic project on Formulation of Buccal mucoadhesive tablet.
I use Drug having bitter taste, acidic pH (1-2) and very hygroscopic. I want to mask bitter taste, irritation and hygroscopicity.
I think Eudragit used for make dipersion of Drug- Eudragit for mask taste, irritation and hygroscopicity.
Please tell what grade of Eudragit usage is more prefferrable.
I think The suitable grade of eudragit must have
i) Drug release in Buccal cavity/ saliva
ii) Mask bitter bitter taste
iii) Protect/ prevent hygroscopicity API
Please any one have reference please send to me.
Please give valuable suggestion and idea to me.
Thanks you
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Check this article, maybe you find useful information:
Eudragit®: A Versatile Family of Polymers for Hot Melt Extrusion and 3D Printing Processes in Pharmaceutics Juliana dos Santos 1 , Guilherme Silveira da Silva 2 , Maiara Callegaro Velho 1 and Ruy Carlos Ruver Beck 1,2,* 
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Dear Researcher,
As part of our research, we monitor patients' various symptoms in order to detect new variants of the Coronavirus by analyzing the COVID-19 data.
We need to include a new symptoms dataset. Unfortunately, we do not have access to any decent data.
It would be great if you could provide us patients' datasets of your paper, including their gender, age, location, date, and more importantly, their symptoms like fever, fatigue, cough, and loss of smell and taste.
There are some researches such as (App-Based Tracking of Self-Reported COVID-19 Symptoms: Analysis of Questionnaire Data) in the literature. But I do not know of the availability of their dataset.
Do you have any suggestions?
Best,
Mahdi Fathi
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Regardless of the availability of the symptoms' dataset, I question your methodology "...monitor patients' various symptoms in order to detect new variants of the Coronavirus by analyzing the COVID-19 data." Symptoms alone are not indicative factors for new variants of the covid. New variants can be detected only by molecular sequencing of the virus RNA.
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I know 2 women who have lost their senses of taste and smell after being diagnosed with COVID-19, but have not met a male with this symptom. Is there research on recovery and gender?
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Yes, there are few studies. Moreover, zinc supplements are found effective in regaining smell and taste post covid.
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I'm a 4th year undergraduate in University Of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) in Sri Lanka. I'm doing my final year research based on Taste and EEG data that is recorded of taste sensations. Where I was trying to find a public data set but couldn't find any. Does anyone know how can I find a EEG data set of Taste. Your responses and help will be much appreciated.
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You may be able to get data sets from articles:
Misra G, Wang WE, Archer DB, Roy A, Coombes SA. Automated classification of pain perception using high-density electroencephalography data. J Neurophysiol. 2017;117(2):786-795. doi:10.1152/jn.00650.2016
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our team working on health and personal food
I am looking for is there any way to quantify the taste of food, specifically meat?
Many thanks for considering my request.
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Most researchers studying the taste active components of seafood perform specific analyses for classes of molecules they think will be taste active since previous research found them to be, such as amino acids, nucleotides, organic bases/acids, sugars, and minerals. But what if other molecules are taste active and aren't being found because the chromatography conditions or pre-treatment don't allow them to reach the detector?
Example papers:
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Yes, perhaps because it may be attributed to the instability of the reactive substances under certain conditions, where the suitability of the method depends on the type of product, method of processing and storage, and the degree to which the particular method relates to sensory analysis.
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As my experience and many consumer experience they feel the different taste of the same item served cooked in a different source, is it real or not, what is the reason behind this.
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thank you a lot dear professor Dariusz Prokopowicz, Mirosław Grzesik for your wonderful answer and suggestion.
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There has been increasing literature on people losing their sense of taste and smell due to a COVID-19 infection. Do any of you neurologists have opinions on why people with COVID get these symptoms and how long it would take to recover post-COVID?
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Hi! looking at the study below could you please tell me what the design would be?? would it be way two way repeated measures anova or manova or one way???
also, what would the iv and dv be? I have - DV: bitterness, acidity, aroma
Within participant factor: background noise
IV - Two levels: loud/less loud
Bravo-Moncayo et al. (2020) assessed the effects of urban noise on consumers' coffee tasting experiences.
Thirty-six participants were asked to rate the bitterness, acidity and aroma intensity of a cup of coffee when exposed to loud (85dB) background noise of a food court during busy hours.
After cleansing their palates, they were then asked to evaluate the bitterness, acidity and aroma intensity of another cup of coffee while listening to a less loud (65dB) recording of the same background noise. Participants were not informed that the coffees they tasted were the same in both conditions.
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Marketing strategies often use some aspects of human nature to create better results, balancing among ethics and profit. Sensory marketing is area of psychological marketing based on “embodied cognition” –concept that bodily sensations help to determine human decisions without conscious awareness. Consumers don’t perceive such messages as marketing and don’t react with the usual resistance. Taste is unique among other sensory systems in association with mechanisms of reward and aversion. The sense of taste is the most intimate one since it is related to close contact with consumer. It is also closely related to obesity. The background of obesity is genetic, metabolic, behavioural and environmental: the rapidity with which obesity is increasing suggests that behavioural and environmental influences are those accelerating the epidemic. Traditionally, “addiction” is applied to the abuse of drugs that activate the brain’s reward pathways. Recently, there is wider understanding of the term including so-called “behavioural addictions“. Food addiction relates to loss of control, overconsumption and withdrawal symptoms. The problem is a concept of ethical marketing. If we classify obesity as an addiction, sensory marketing targeting food is doing much more harm by marketing food in inappropriate way than we thought.
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It is ethical. Marketers can influence consumer perceptions of their products by using multisensory interactions. When used correctly, sensory messaging can help to create the right atmosphere and fuel sales. It is critical to concentrate on reaching your consumers in order to ensure that mobile marketing works with your business.
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The field of food and beverage industry lack of term to define overall perception of taste and flavor.
Dr. Spence proposed FLAVE as a term to describe the overall perception of taste and flavor. Is there any other proposals?
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Thanks, Dr. Leon. Yes, it FLAVEUR is translated into Saveur, people might link it to Savory or Umami. The most important issue is that how to combine the retronasal into consideration if taste is purely for salt, sweet, bitter, and acidic. Would be happy to get your advice. www.epcflavoring.com
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I was wondering if tannins in black tea were harmful. I also see a lot of affirmations related to the tannin content of a cup of tea, which make no sense, as the tannin content depends a lot on temperature and time.
From experience, the difference between making black tea at 90 degrees C and brewing for 3 minutes and making tea at 100 degrees C and brewing for 4 minutes is the difference between normal taste and a very bitter taste.
I know that tannins can cause cancer, but do all of them? Also, they reduce absorbtion of nutrients from food - is it ok if we drink tea one hour after eating?
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Antinutrients yes, but carcinogens is not usually associated to tannins. Specially in tea there is an issue with binding of iron by the derivatives of epigallocatechingallate.
Try DOI: 10.1039/c4fo00007b and DOI: 10.1021/jf302348s
and of course limitation of protein degradation, partly by precipitation of enzymes, partly by precipitation of other proteins.
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I am attempting to start conditioned taste aversion with B6 mice, is there something that mice love more than saccharin solution, or is saccharin solution the way to go? All the papers I looked at have saccharin or sodium saccharin, but I was curious to see if there were any secret tips. A while back, we were told to use cocoa pebbles for the radial arm maze because the mice love them.
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Naive B6 mice without prior sweetener experience also equally preferred saccharin and fructose (6.5 vs. 6.3 g/day). Thus, a saccharin-only solution is no more effective than sucralose or sucralose + saccharin solution in conditioning a CS+ flavor preference in B6 mice. https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5357161/
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Conventionally, the perceived knowledge of flavor must be volatile substances in gas form. We have proved that retronasal could be formed perfectly by non-volatile or less volatile substances. We hypothesized that retronsal aroma were transferred to retronasal cavity in form of aerosol. The soft palate brushed the residues in form of aerosol containing liquid droplets or powder particles of food and beverage in the inner layer of laryngopharynx after swallow.
The aerosol referral is the key to individuate the flavor and taste. Aerosol referral is also the key to understand the perception of flavor and sense.
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My mom (55 y.o.) has been sick with covid-19 for 10 days.
She had very mild fever(37.2degC) for the first 2 days. She took Nimesil just in case it keeps increasing. Then for the next 7 days she didn’t have any fever and she didn’t took any medicine, but she was having extreme fatigue. She has been feeling very unwell and we can’t figure out what exactly is wrong: she doesn’t have any pain, she has no difficulty breathing, her saturation is around 97%, she had no cough or anything, she didn’t loose her sense of smell/taste. But very often she would have her body temperature going down to 35.8-36.0.
And now, after 9-10 days, all of a sudden, she has fever with 38degC and she still has extreme fatigue, can someone explain what’s going on? Is it normal?
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I think its normal for covid19 patients, I saw patients have fever up to 14 days with no other symptom only fatigue, u should check her CBC, LDH, CRP, Ferritin, and D Dimer just to make sure everything is fine
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I'm looking at nutritional foodstuffs and games/activities to slow down dementia. As part of this I have been making foods high in antioxidants and balanced with nuts, dark chocolate etc. and trying them out on my self for taste, construction etc. before working on detailed studies post finding some basic designs.
I have regular blood tests and my potassium has risen to 5.3 which, excluding certain medical conditions, leads me to nutrition as that is the only thing I have changed as my diet is very high in antioxidants. I know that too much can lead to "reductive stress"/"oxidise stress" but there is limited information on this from nutrition induced as studies are in the main from injecting mice.
If I am right in my logic that too much antioxidant creates a high potassium level than I am going to have to go back a few steps and reconsider my basic design, as always, safety first.
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The potassium levels were a little higher than normal as many antioxidant foods have a higher level in them, but insufficient to take me that high as I was using supplements that did not contain potassium. Previous levels were high but safe around 4.2 to 4.4. I do not have the capability to measure exact intake. The high measure could also be from a lab error by damaging cells so I am testing again tomorrow.
I do have a concern though about having over antioxidant intake as I did not realise that was a problem. I am a psychologist and trying to put something together but I did not realise, naivety to be honest, that high intake of something that nutritionally has good affects but negative ones as well. I am also learning of other potential issues with kidneys and thyroids for instance.
I am now giving myself more questions than answers, which is not a bad thing at all, but something I thought was relatively easy, I think is going to very complex with a lot over my head.
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The five widely known basic organs and senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell; They are in charge of making us see, hear, smell, taste and have tactile sensitivity. Each organ is associated with a sense:
The eyes are associated with the sense of sight (vision).
The ears are associated with the sense of hearing (hearing).
The nose is associated with the sense of smell.
The tongue is associated with the sense of taste.
The skin is associated with the sense of touch.
  • One of the most fearsome diseases that often reduce our life expectancy is cancer, all the more so when it is detected in an advanced stage and when there is little to do in terms of cancer treatment, limitation of damage and survival.
  • Cancer is a tissue that breaks the cellular biological rules of coexistence with normal and healthy cells of organs and tissues.
  • When cells reproduce in a disorderly manner, they invade and crowd a space destined exclusively for a certain type and quantity of cells in a characteristic tissue.
  • If normal cells detect said alteration, they could send biochemical and molecular signals that would alert in an early way of said change, by way of alarm.
  • Cell replication and programmed apoptosis, in addition to cell mobility together with the intracellular organelles involved, could be the targets to be studied; stimulus type and cell deformation in spaces crowded by a multitude of invading foreign cells.
  • Understanding this ability to detect deformation, measure it, and react accordingly can have important implications in understanding processes such as cancer growth and homeostasis.
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I think that
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Depending on the disease, it will be possible to recognize the symptoms even on the dry product?
Which compounds will be affected and how?
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A patient with hereditary desminopathy (mutation Thr341Pro DES in a heterozygous state) with disease progression has a significant decrease in taste. How can this fact be explained?
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Probably affect facial nerve and glossopharyngeal nerve in the pons and medulla oblongata?
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Let me begin by stating that statistics are unfortunately no strength of mine.
I have conducted a questionnaire assessing loss of smell/taste in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic for my MSc thesis. I have surveyed 254 HCWs of which 44 reported loss of their smell and taste. The first question asked whether the participant had experienced a loss of smell or taste within the last 6 months (yes/no). The next question enquired whether the participant had experienced a burning or tingling sensation within the 6 months (yes/no).
I would subsequently like to compare the results of these two questions in order to establish if participants who reported a loss of smell and taste were statistically more likely to experience a burning and tingling sensation than those who did not report a loss of smell or taste.
I have already run a Chi-square test using spss however my assumptions have been violated so I want to ensure I am using the correct statistical test.
Any suggestions/guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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Hello David,
I'm not sure why you conclude that a chi-square test of independence won't work for your analysis (was it a matter of one or more cells having too-low expected frequencies?). In addition to the chi-square, here are some other possible paths:
1. Fisher exact test.
2. Odds ratio (with CI), comparing odds of burning sensation reported for respondents with loss of smell/taste vs. those without loss of smell/taste.
3. Logistic regression, with IV of smell/taste status and DV of burning/tingling status (which should yield same result as #2).
Good luck with your work.
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It is often believed that the taste of a produce is better if a crop is receiving nutrients from organic source. How far its true and why ? Crops take N either in the form of ammonium or in nitrate form and never directly as urea or FYM. So, why organic source is believed to be better for taste of the produce ? (I am soil asking for soil properties)
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Let me respond to your question with my experience on fruit crops. Probably , earlier also, we responded on similar questions , if you browse through researchgate questions , you will find in plenty .
These issues have no end of discussion with first part of yoru question . But , second part of your question , with rspect to taste of produce, its quite interesting . When you apply oraganic manures in form of FYM or vermicompost, there are certain organic catios and anions as such they are able to enter into the roots and , thereby, mobilise better conjugation with other immmbolie nutrients inside the plants to lodge them into the real effective sink sites , measuring much higher nutrinet density comapred to inorganic fertilizer sources. This could be one of many other reasons ...
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I've been reading around GC for use in food analysis (quality, taste, aromas) and was wondering if there any great benefit of combining FTIR and MS in one system.
I understand the complementary information from both methods on isomer structures for example. Recently, literature uses dedicated GC-MS and GC-FTIR. So, I was wondering if this is because:
1. FTIR spectra are rarely needed for general research.
2. System setup is so much simpler when separated that it's worth the money to get a dedicated system.
3. Combining the two is a hell of a task (synchronization?) and not worth any money.
4. Combining the two isn't effective (sampling speed, LOD, type of things)
I might be missing something important as I haven't worked with GC yet.
I found the topic quite interesting as a "pastime read", so I'd appreciate any views. Maybe somebody with experience from the 80s? From what I found it was quite a thing back then.
Thanks
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One possibility is to prepare a sample at higher concentration for the FTIR and then use a splitter at the effluent side of the GC that is in a ratio to provide a vast majority of sample to the FTIR and the rest to the MS. So this would be a single GC with a splitter to both FTIR and MS. They would be in parallel, not tandem.
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The anchovy is mostly intended for the production of fishmeal, because its taste and smell are not very pleasant before the taste of people, thus wasting the great nutritional value of the anchovy.
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The answer to your question depends on the place where you are working and the persons you want to convince. The taste for a product is a subtle 'local' cultural construction. In Europe, some trademarks sell Engraulis ringens canned as "small pilchards" or prepared as European anchovy - filets in oil, marinated filets... But, are these products able to interest local [lower class] consumers?
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Are sudden absence of sense of smell and taste mean Covid-19 infections in the absence of other symptoms?
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Mango is popularly known as king of fruits. Hundreds of varieties of mangoes are produced in the world over. Some of them are most liked and popular because of their taste and deliciousness such as 'White Chonsa'. However, this king fruit is highly sensitive to weather and environmental conditions. The question here is about the kind of physical environment (temperature, precipitation, atmospheric humidity, soils, soil moisture etc.) that is most desirable for the optimum production of best varieties of mangoes. In addition to this which type of of areas are most appropriate for mango production. Research based scientific answer would be helpful to understand the question.
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Thanks Neda Ravankhah for informative answer about the environmental conditions required for mango farming.
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 I want to understand what is the difference in taste for a seasoning ( like Sour Cream or barbeque ) when delivered on a fabricated chip vs a slice & fried potato chip ? 
Also, what type of seasonings  work better on a Fabricated chip ( with possibly higher starch content) vs a Regular potato chip ? For example, is a 'Dairy flavour' delivered better on a Fabricated chip ? Are spicier flavours delivered better through a regular slice & fry chip ?
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The surface and food matrix of both products is completely different. Fabricated chips (based on dough/powders) have no intact cells left which influences the oil absorption, frying behavior and the final product characteristics. Fabricated chips can also be baked. Oil and seasoning are than sprayed on the product.
For chips that been cut out of a whole potato the timing of seasoning after the frying is very important, but the general product characteristic is already created while frying. The raw material (potato or other vegetables) have the main influence on the basic taste.
In summary, the fabricated chip allows to play with recipes more suitable for certain flavors. However, the “traditional” chip, which is cut out of a whole vegetable is often considered as more “natural” or “original”.
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Steam distilling is great, but in this case it is leaving an off putting smell and taste in the desired end product. Are there any other methods to distill the volatile oils without direct solvent extraction of the plant? We do not want to use solvent directly on the plant because it will pick up other compounds that we cannot have in our end product.
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Microwave extraction is the best without solvent nor water nor organic solvant !
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Dear all;
I have collected a Citrus species and proposing that it may be a new variety/species upon some differences in the morphology of fruit and leaf and taste of the fruit. Now I am looking forward to confirming if it is a truly new one using molecular tools or not? Could you give me a suggestion for a molecular tool/method which is simple, efficient, and reliable for the confirmation?
Many thank for your help
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Thank you for your reply. I haven't yet. I will do this. But please give me what is a useful and simple molecular tool in case I wanna use them to valid this candidate?
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It is important to be vigilant while selecting a book to read. Many qualities can be developed in us by reading good books beside enriching our experience and expanding our knowledge. On the other hand, bad books spoil our taste and develop unhealthy habits.
What is a good book, article, or blog you recommend? and if possible why is it worth reading?
Thanks in advance for your participation.
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I like Mickey Mouse cartoons.
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There are prohibitions in a few cultures, including Indian cultures, that seemed to be related to the notion of ritual impurity. Sharing a cup, vessel or cutlery while eating or drinking beverages is one such prohibited habit. Tasting food using a spoon and putting it back into food being cooked is another. Ordering a dessert and sharing it with everyone around the table dipping their spoons into it is yet another. Many Indians who have spent some time in Europe or in the Americas have “learnt” to overcome these prohibitions. In fact, they find it amusing when they see some of their compatriots show inhibitions to be “westernized”!
In a world in which virus diseases are threatening to become pandemics, the old cultural practices may be valuable to prevent saliva-borne infections. Comments are invited, particularly from medical doctors and microbiologists. Actual prevention of the spread of infections is one thing, and creating awareness of undesirable practices is another. A clear unwillingness to practice habits that could possibly harm others helps both ways.
In this context, it is worth reading about how mumps spreads and what damage it can do.
Srinivasan Ramani (also on my blog Obvioustruths.blogspot.com )
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I highly appreciate any hygienic measure which contributes to prevent infections diseases.
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Hello,
I have a practical problem with datasets perhaps not ready yet for stats, but looking for advice.
There are 4 different groups (representing 4 animal diets) I'd like to compare. For each group we acquire ~20 different parameters including the dependent variables (eg, taste liking score), and we have 3 repetitions/observations of these parameters.
what test can I use to do inter-group comparison?
How many observations should I do per each group to get to statistical relevance?
Many thanks
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hello.
one simple way is to include the mean of these three replications in the analysis. Then, one-way ANOVA or Kruskal–Wallis tests should be used depending on the normality or non-normality of the variables.
Also, for assessing the changes over time you can use repeated measure analysis.
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The tested parameters for by-product : Applicable, usefull and cheaper
The tested parameters for bakery products
were taste, aroma, mouth feel, crumb texture, crumb color, (break & shred), crust color and symmetry shape.
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To produce a bakery product functional food rich in dietary fiber, you may choose to use a composite flour enriched with watermelon rind powder.
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Can someone tell me how to increase the shelf life of pickles to 6 months to 1 year..?
Below are details
- Should not have artificial preservatives
- Packaging should be glass bottles
- Quality of the product should not deteriorate (Taste and authenticity should remain same)
- Cannot use Retort because it is deteriorating the taste of the product.
Thanks,
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The Indian pickle already contains salts, sugar, oil and spices as basic ingredients. These ingredients act as preservatives itself, there is no need for the extra preservatives. Salts and sugar works on the principle of osmotic pressure on microbial cell wall result in disruption and spices acts as antimicrobial agents. The oil layer creates anaerobic conditions in pickles by reducing oxygen supply which may inhibit microbial growth. In addition, the shelf life of the pickles can be enhanced via refrigeration in airtight glass/plastic jar.
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Water treatment plant systems (WTPS) to supply water need to amount of water inlet. Based on this, the beat water resources to supply is the Lake or Reservoir. Sometimes in spring and summer after increase of water temperature and nutrient Harmful Algae Bloom occurs and high volume of algae inter to the WTPS and cussed to taste and odor and sometimes toxins in drinking water.
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A simple screening could be done to remove.
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I grew up on a farm with the change of the soybean from animal feed to human. I know that it was always used in some cultures but I remember when in the 1970's, it was the "new" wonder food. I also remember trying a few soy-based food products that tasted cardboard like. There have been improvements in taste. I still think that flax is better, at least, in my experience with both. That is another discussion though.
Soybeans are grown world wide, so, do different climates affect the potency? Also, obviously, do the cultivating methods (manual labor, poor soil, limited fertilizer, high mechanization, presence of pestilence and the chemicals used to control it, storage and distribution) make some varieties more potent?
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Thank you for joining the conversation and for the valuable information. I admit I am not a fan of bean sprouts, but I love alfalfa sprouts. I do like roasted soybeans. Food has the ability to heal and prevent so many illnesses. Nature is amazing.
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Hi, I am making a report on the environmental impact of different systems of lettuce production, open field, greenhouse production and indoor farming. But I also want to highlight if there are any differences in taste, texture or nutritional content. I would be grateful for any leads to relevant research.
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Do you think the nutritional value or medicinal properties consider by people? or other factors such as taste, price, ...... are the main reason for this regard?
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Oh Dear Dr M. Awad
Can not stop laughing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am working on resole and Novolak phenolic resin but my new tast is to develop Catalin phenolic resin which can be shaped into different colors.
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The term ‘catalin phenolic resin’ refers to a generic class of thermo-setting polymeric materials which are widely used in industry. Unlike the chemically similar plastic polymers all resins have a rigid structure suitable for making moulded products. The manufacturing process starts with one or more low molecular weight (MW) precursor chemicals known as ‘monomers’. Such molecules have two or more chemically active bonding sites that can link them together into larger ‘polymer’ structures. With only one chemically active group only simple ‘dimers’ are generated. If the relevant monomer has two or more active sites an on-going repetitive linking process known as polymerization may occur which generates large high MW structures. Monomers with two active sites tend to generate long chain molecules with plastic or rubber type properties. In contrast in phenolic resin polymerization the monomers have at least three active sites and the product of polymerization is a highly cross-linked three-dimensional chemical structure ideally suited to the manufacture thermosetting moulded products. In this case the low MW monomers in granular form are typically melted and cross linked within the mould. By contrast plastic polymers such a nylon are typically pre-polymerized, melted and then extruded under pressure in perhaps fibre or rod form.
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Unlike some recent results in aquaculture suggested, acceptable tastes and flavours have been developed in agriculture and animal husbandry over the ages and the changes from the wild state to domestication have been positive. Perhaps one has to wait longer for novel research developments to expect similar acceptable results in aquaculture too.
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Intensively farmed vertebrate species in often cramped conditions usually don't move as much as their wild brethren and thus their flesh does not have the same consistency and texture. You can see the difference even as a layperson looking at farmed salmon with the characteristic fatty deposits between the myomeres and the muscle not bouncing back, when you apply a little pressure - compare that with wild salmon of usually darker more intense orangy/pink colour and firm muscle. The colour is due to the crustaceans in their wild food, while farmed salmon is raised on feeds based largely on soya (not enough cheap fishmeal available) and gets supplements giving it a light pink colour shortly before slaughter. That's not to say to automatically all species fattened in culture are bad - some less intensive processes don't need as much artificial feeds, antibiotics and other supplements. Especially in forms of polyculture that have existed in Chinese traditional freshwater culture for millennia they may also use part of the natural productivity thanks to a wider range of species raised together using all ecological niches in a waterbody. Such more extensive or semi-intensive forms of aquaculture mimic natural conditions to produce the different textures and flavours of natural habitats, but are currently not competitive with intensive farms not paying for the environmental cost and other ramifications they externalise on the environment and society.
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sweet taste receptors.
i am thinking of binding casein with sucrose. I was wondering when consumed, can the sweetness be tasted?
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We are looking to a good sniffin' test to evaluate smell discrimination and detection. It will be a sample of 40 participants.
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Thank you so much for your answer. Yes, I meant "detection threshold".
Finally, we will use Sniffin' Sticks, it seems very complete (with the 3 different measures), and because we are in a really exploratory stage I think is best option.
But I really found interesting the SMT, so thank you again to let me know about it.
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I want to measure TSS and pH for the best ratio but I did not find any suitable method to conduct this study.
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here i add two ducuments which can provide a guide to plan your experiments.
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Sometimes when I eating an apple, I feel that the the lower part (blossom) of the apple more sweeter, whereas the upper part (middle to top) is often more watery and feels less sweet than lower part. Please provide me logic. Thanks in advance.
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I agree with Ali Alhayny. Also, most of the mineral element accumulated in inner parts.
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I’d like to know if there is anything currently used to inhibit or block fat taste perception in humans. I haven’t been able to find anything!
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Ernesto Tarragon Evidence about the existence of fat taste (oleogustus) is only at the preliminary stage. It is not widely accepted that oleogustus is a type of taste perception. In contrast to sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami tastes with well defined mechanisms of perception, the mechanism of fat taste perception has not been completely delineated. Thus, not every scientist acknowledge the existence of oleogustus as the 6th or 7th (after water taste?) type of taste. I do not know if there is currently any inhibitor for oleogustus. Thus dissecting the mechanism (molecular) of oleogustus perception is key to conducting a library screening or profiling of possible inhibitors, which will certainly provide a new frontier of therapeutics for some metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.
If you consider the G-protein receptor, GPR-120, and CD-36 essential in oleogustus perception, then you can see currently available inhibitors here -
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I have made some powder of Moringa leaves and tried to made tea from it. The color and appearance of that tea is similar to green tea. But the taste and flavor of that tea is raw and unpleasant. How can I improve that taste?
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Hello dear Mahamud,
You can try fried rice (not muri) powder to alter flavor of moringa leaf tea.
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I was researching for debittering process on soy milk hydrosilate, and I'm using activated carbon to debitter it. I'm doing trial and error test and I can't find the correct method for debittering process. I'm using granulated activated carbon with comparison 0.5 - 1 gram per 1 gram protein on soy milk, and I just stir it together.
The process result are :
- Bitterness not decrease significantly
- The color of the milk is quite gray
- The taste of the milk is affected by the flavour of activated carbon
Any recommendatiom for the mash of the activated carbon, how to filter it, and how to decrease the bitterness??
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Refer this article, we clarified sweet sorghum juice to make beverage
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Why taste sensation is altered by levadopa?
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Taste and smell are related. there is a good literature on the loss of smell in PD.
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I'm aware that a few millennia ago, humans have observed that ants were attracted to urine which led to the practice of tasting urine for diagnosis. Would we see ants getting a comeback and work with physicians as an effective and cheap alternative for chemical tests?
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Joshua;
When using sugar bait traps for general ant collecting I use 30-40 g/L solution. The threshold for diagnosing diabetes is about 0.126 g/L. It would be a simple lab experiment to determine the detection threshold of some of the nectar-gathering species of ants. In the southwestern US where I live there are an abundance of species that do that. Members of the genera Prenolepis, Myrmecocystus, Formica and Lasius are common and are readily maintained in the lab...and are commonly found in sugar bait traps.
See if you can find some data on that question. It's only a matter of personal curiosity because Nemanja is correct in his assessment.
Best regards, Jim Des Lauriers
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Often it is difficult to add the correct number of chiles in cooking so that required taste is obtained . Estimating the hotness ( Scoville Heat Unit )
would help in meeting targetted taste. It seems a visual inspection of shape , color, tip and examination of sliced insides should help. Any and all are welcome to express their suggestion.
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Hello, it's like watermelon before cutting 50/50 prediction ).
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In the intro of the article above (Djeziri, 2018), the researchers reference the "low lingual detection of fatty acids" and "high preference for dietary lipids" associated with obesity, concluding that "low oro-sensory detection of lipids will further contribute to high dietary fat intake in obese subjects."
What is the logic here? That if you can't taste the fat as strongly, it takes more fat to satisfy your desire for fat, so you over-consume? Miscalculation due to under-reporting?
In the methods, they use an overnight (12-hr) two-bottle preference test between solutions of oleic acid (0.2% w/v) [fatty taste] and xanthan gum (0.3% w/v) [control].
But in the results, lean rats (and high-fat diet rats with OLA treatment) consumed significantly more oleic acid than the control, and obese rats consumed more control that oleic acid.
Shouldn't the obese rats have consumed more oleic acid? If obesity is associated with greater fat preference?
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One of the common hypotheses is that low sensitivity to fatty acids makes you eat more fat. Also, I don't have this article but in the abstract they say: "OLA-treated obese mice exhibited higher fat preference compared to untreated obese mice".
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Hello Dear Researchers and Professors,
We want to make Khakhara having various fruit flavour. But now as we mix up the fruit powder with the flour it got burnt at the time of roasting and tastes very bad.
So solution is needed for this process, If any other technique or idea is there than please share.
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Thank You@ Marcus Ramdwar
Temperature goes up to 170 degree Celcius while roasting it.
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Many researches processed musical tastes in adulthood, respectively. in adolescence, but rarely we find contributions about the musical tastes in childhood. Do you know some papers, articles, researches, which are described musical taste in childhood? Do you have some ideas, which is a most effective approach for investigation of music preferences frame in childhood?
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I do not have any experience with children in general, sorry 😌
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I am progecting a descriptive sensory evaluation of rye crackers covered with sesame seeds.
These products are caratterized by off-notes of burned and oxidized. Also, the rye give to the crackers an acid taste.
We are giving 3 or 4 samples during each session and providing apple' slices in order to "clean" and un-saturate the mouth among each product. The usual un-salted crackers that we ordinarily use seem not effective for the panel.
Unfortunatily, we are having some problem in providing fresh apples every time. It would be better for us to use something that we can storage for a medium-long time.
So, here my question: What can we use instead of apples?
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Dear Anna María - hope I'm still on time to help you! Palate cleansers are a big issue for us, because we analyze multi-categoríes. We search for both chemical and physical cleansers for the mouth. The traditional "salted" or "soda" crackes is a myth! These crackers, as I asume are also your rye crackers, they are very harsh on the mouth skin! We use "jícama" (Pachyrhizus erosus), which is a practically flavorless fibrous and humid tuber that has been excellent to clean the tongue, followed by luke-warm filtered water and white bread (without the crust). This treatment is a "spa" for the mouth! Look for feed-back from your judges. Best of luck!
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As a barista, I do cupping regularly. Whenever tasting some natural and honey, especially red and black honey, processed coffees, I notice some flavor notes such as, banana, cashew, jackfruit, snake-fruit, durian ,and cider are present. I'm curious about how do those flavors above modulated? And why do those flavors commonly present on natural and honey process?
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During processing (the separation of fruit from the seed), the coffee is still viable and under some processing conditions (mainly fully washed) the seed will begin processes of germination (see for a summary study and ). There are also factors of how the fruit changes due to various (mostly anaerobic) processes while still in contact with the bean. Since "honey" and "naturally processed" coffees are in contact with the bean for a longer time, these latter can dominate the flavor in those coffees. The types of flavor developed during processing are a function of the degree of germination and the interaction between fruit and seed during processing, depending on temperature, pH, and time (processing techniques).
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As my doctor kept amazed and felicitated me for my blood analysis results, "They look like an athlete's ones!", I got aware how common had turned cholesterol and sugar problems, that doctors are surprised not to find them in a woman my age.
"Why don't do you nutrition courses, because there are easy, cheap and tasteful solutions. You'll cut 80% problems off and save a lot of money"
"Social Security also relies on pharmaceutical industries, and they don't appreciate the idea of 80% problems solved."
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lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat.
"nearly 67% of the country's population suffers from malnutrition"
synonyms: undernourishment, malnourishment, undernutrition, poor diet, inadequate diet, unhealthy diet, lack of food, inanition; starvation, hunger, famine; anorexia
"there is a real danger of hunger and even malnutrition"
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As an art enthusiast, I find it somewhat discouraging that scholarly articles in such fields as philosophy, literature, film and history of art, despite the prestige and the significance usually associated with them, are scarcely received by the general public. I believe, as scholars in any field, scientific or artistic, we should find more effective platforms, other than periodic academic journals, to give vent to our insights. I wish to know if anyone has had the same feeling or concern in his/her field of study and, if so, what strategies one can use to overcome the barriers to presenting scholarly work as tuned to the general taste.
Thank you everyone.
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An additional problem is one of language. In order to engage a more general public, you have to be understood. And much of accademia tends to tie itself up in knots by using very field specif words, expressions or phrase. Worse, at times they will use words with a different meaning from that which is understood byt the general readr, thus creating confusions.
finally, it becomes necessary to find how cutting edge research blends into the genral cultural landscape. Using a blog or, more generic platforms and venues is very useful if it forces researchers outwards.
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Hallo, i am working for rice grain quality and nutrition. As we know rice variety has different taste. Some are accepted by the consumer some are not. Any idea how i can differentiate taste or where i can find the appropriate procedure for analysis. Usually we are doing sensory evaluation for taste.
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Sharifa- You can consult a book Sensory evaluation by Stone & Sidel for basics.
Furthermore, if you can conduct sensory evaluation correctly, you can distinguish among rice samples. Consider, rice texture (soft/hard), color, flavor etc.
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Im currently using clarithromycin taste masking granules (27% taste masked granules ) for this project. Also using sucralose , sugar, titanium dioxide , citric acid, xanthum gum, salt as exipients in this formulation . But when drinking this and if we bite a single granule of the taste masking granule. it will give the bitter taste (after taste) . There is no way to cut of that bitterness.
Any suggestions please.
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During induction of general anaesthesia, is there any established sequence of onset of disabilities like vision, hearing, smell, taste, temperature, sensory, motor, and so on? Do they have any sequence of regaining as well during recovery?
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Thanks for your nice and valuable comments.
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Experiment which usually deals with mimicking human perception like taste and smell required precision in comparison of two sets of results - one set of result obtained from the instrument like e-tongue and e nose or other sensors; while another set of result from the expert people like tester.
The results are usually in two different space so how can we compare these two kind of result to bring some realistic model.
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This problem is similar to predicate the precision of the result obtained by different clustering algorithms, due to different clustering algorithms use different labels [1,2].
Suppose A=(a1,a2...an) is obtained from the instrument like e-tongue and e nose or other sensors, where \forall ai \in {C1,C2,C3}
B=(b1, b2,...bn) is a set of result from the expert people like tester, where \forall bi \in {D1,D2,D3,D4}.
in order to compute the precision of A according to B, the following steps are avaiable:
1. maximum match A with B by Kuhn-Munkras[3], suppose there are 3 matched pairs found by Kuhn-Munkres algorithm: (‘C1’,‘D2’), (‘C2’, ‘D1’) and (‘C3’, ‘D4’)
2. compute the precision as following:
if a1 is ‘C1’ and b1 is 'D2' then a1 is correctly predicated; if a2 is ‘C2’ and b2 is 'D4' then a2 is wrong, similar to other cases. The following example shows the precision= (8-2)/89=75%
A: C1 C1 C1 C2 C2 C2 C3 C3
B: D2 D2 D4 D1 D1 D3 D4 D4
Correct or not: Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
[1]Y. Chen, S. Tang, L. Zhou, C. Wang, J. Du, T. Wang, and S. Pei, “Decentralized clustering by finding loose and distributed density cores,” Information Sciences, [doi:10.1016/j.ins.2016.08.009],2016.
[2] Y. Chen, S. Tang, S. Pei, C. Wang, J. Du, and N. Xiong, “Dheat: A density heat-based algorithm for clustering with effective radius,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2017.
[3]H. W. Kuhn, “The hungarian method for the assignment problem,” Naval research logistics quarterly, vol. 2, no. 1-2, pp. 83–97, 1955.
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Hi,
I want to perform a taste test on bitter gourd grown in aquaponics experiments.
What is the scientific research design for taste test?
What questionnaire should I set?
Any relevant scientific article, please.
Many thanks.
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Hello Mohammed,
If you search the term, "organoleptic testing," you'll find considerable resources that may be helpful to you. As an example, here is an article that focuses on the methodology aspects:
Good luck with your work.
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Different chemicals are added to different canned Juices as preservative or additives. These chemicals increase shelf life of juices and enhance its taste and nutrients quality. Some of these chemicals may have negative impacts on health.
What are those chemicals that are added as preservative/ additives to juices?
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Preservatives
Preservatives keep food from spoiling and maintain freshness and color or flavor foods. They are often added to baked goods, meats, jellies and beverages. Preservatives include ascorbic acid, citric acid, sodium benzoate, calcium propionate, vitamin E, BHA and BHT. Calcium propionate is a chemical preservative used in cheeses, and citric acid is used as a buffer and neutrilizer in dressings, cheeses and canned fruit juices. BHA (butylated hydroxytoluene) and BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) are antioxidants commonly used in breakfast cereals to help prevent change in color, odor or flavor.
Additives
According to the Food and Drug Administration, a food additive is any substance added to food, including preservatives, food coloring, flavor enhancers, thickeners, stabilizers, nutrients and sweeteners. Examples of food additives are sucrose (sugar), glucose, fructose, sorbitol, mannitol, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, saccharin and aspartame, used for sweetening; or FD&C Yellow Nos. 5 and 6, annato or beta carotene, used for food coloring. Thickeners and stablizers include pectin, guar gum, carrageenan, xanthan gum, whey and gelatin. Breads and baked goods often contain leavening agents such as baking soda, monocalcium phosphate and calcium carbonate.
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The taste on the product is evident. Is it toxic?
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I went through the toxicity profile of PGEE and it doesn't look like to be toxic at those low levels of exposure (literature attached). However, any expert in this field can comment better.