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... Hypsizygus marmoreus is an edible variety of mushroom with a distinct umami taste, which might be contributed by amino acids and umami peptides. Umami peptides have been widely studied, except for those from Hypsizygus marmoreus. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to find new umami peptides in it. After the mushrooms were enzymatically hydrolyzed, they were separated and characterized b ...
taste, etc ; food quality; plate waste; questionnaires; school food service; surveys; Show all 6 Subjects
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... It is well known that in school catering system the served food rarely will be fully consumed resulting in varying amounts of leftovers, thus part of the food will become waste. This phenomenon significantly decreases the effectiveness of school catering. A key solution would be a better consideration of the students' taste, preference, and opinion. The goal of this research was to assess food lik ...
taste, etc ; Cheddar cheese; food chemistry; glutamic acid; metabolites; odors; saltiness; sourness; umami; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Cheddar cheese was desirable by consumers worldwide due to its characteristic taste and aroma, but limited information was available about taste contributors. Therefore, sensory profiles of natural Cheddar cheeses were investigated by quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA). Umami, salty, and brothy attributes were the principal differential attributes. Nonvolatile metabolites were analyzed to dec ...
taste, etc ; acidification; beta-galactosidase; cold storage; galactose; glucose; lactose; lactose free diet; odors; proteolysis; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Many lactose-free dairy products are produced using commercial lactase, but not without problems such as the sweetish taste due to the presence of free glucose and galactose. The aim of the present study was to obtain a lactose-free version of direct-acidified mozzarella without using the enzyme, but removing lactose by curd washing and pressing. The best results were obtained with double curd was ...
... To study new methods to delay the umami taste attenuation of the conditioned pork, the ice temperature of pork, the content of nucleotides, lactic acid, pyruvate, glycogen, and activity of key endogenous enzymes were determined for the conditioned pork stored at 4 °C and ice temperature. The results indicated that the ice temperature of the pork ham bicipital muscle was −1.4 °C. The content of uma ...
taste, etc ; alkalinity; beverages; bicarbonates; calcium; carbonates; color; flavanols; green tea; hydrogen; magnesium; osteoporosis; pH; polyphenols; turbidity; China; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Scale not only affects the taste and color of water, but also increases the risks of osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases associated with drinking it. As a popular beverage, tea is rich many substances that have considerable potential for scale inhibition, including protein, tea polyphenols and organic acids. In this study, the effect of tea brewing on scale formation was explored. It was foun ...
... The quality and flavor of scallops changes during the fresh dry rehydration process. In order to control the changes after rehydration, a scallop pretreatment method was adopted. The pretreatment method involved impregnating fresh scallops with 0.2 g/100 mL konjac glucomannan (KGM), carrageenan (CA), and sodium alginate (SA) before the drying and rehydration process. After rehydration, the KGM tre ...
... Research reporting user trait preferences for fish, particularly in relation to guiding genetic improvement programs are rare, even in tilapia where demand for genetically improved fish has underpinned the expansion of fish farming. The present study investigated gender-disaggregated trait preferences for tilapia by fish farmers in Bangladesh using open-ended questions and stated choice experiment ...
taste, etc ; cured meats; flavor; food science; humans; mouth; pH; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; pork; protein content; saliva; sodium; Show all 12 Subjects
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... The rate of flavor release in the mouth from traditional dry-cured pork was evaluated in this study. It was hypothesized that a slow steady release of flavor would occur on chewing and hydration. To test this, high salt dry-cured pork was chewed and held in oral cavity without swallowing for 4 different chewing stages (B, NC₃₀, C₃₀, EC). Saliva and food bolus from 16 healthy subjects were collecte ...
taste, etc ; Orthoptera; buffaloes; entomophagy; flour; food choices; food composition; food quality; hedonic scales; insects; meat; protein sources; questionnaires; Show all 13 Subjects
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... The growing global population and rising demand for meat increasingly pressures the world's resources. Edible insects are a promising alternative protein source to unsustainable conventional meat. Despite this, disgust and neophobia are cited as significant barriers to the adoption of these novel foods in Western diets. The primary aim of this study was to assess the effects of providing three typ ...
... This paper developed novel fermented stinky sea bass (FSSB) products and reports the first analysis of its taste active compounds, flavor compounds, and quality. The FSSB with Xian Hen stinky tofu (F-XH) had the best sensory quality. After fermentation, the texture of FSSB improved, and the umami amino and sweet amino acid contents significantly increased, whereas that of the bitter amino acids de ...
... In this work, the synergistic/antagonistic impact of glucose and mixed starter cultures, namely Latilactobacillus sakei, Pediococcus pentosaceus, and Staphylococcus xylosus, was evaluated in Italian salami in terms of metabolomics and sensory profiles. As expected, Salami manufactured with 0.5 % glucose exhibited a substantial pH drop, showing values close to 5 at 12 days of ripening. Metabolomics ...
taste, etc ; ascorbic acid; color; deficit irrigation; fruit quality; fruits; galactose; metabolism; metabolites; metabolome; starch; sucrose; sweetness; technology; texture; tomatoes; transcriptome; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Agricultural production has improved with the development of water deficit (WD) irrigation technology, but the impact of the application of WD irrigation on product quality is still understudied. The effects of WD irrigation on the transcriptome and metabolome of fruit have been investigated by treating tomato plants with control or WD irrigation during the growing period. WD irrigation promoted t ...
taste, etc ; Takifugu obscurus; air; color; food science; humans; industrial applications; odors; radio waves; rehydration; sensory evaluation; shelf life; umami; water content; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Pufferfish is prone to deterioration due to abundant nutrients and high moisture content. Drying technology can extend the shelf life and enhance the flavor quality of aquatic products. The study investigated the effect of hot air drying (HAD), microwave vacuum drying (MVD) and hot air assisted radio frequency drying (HARFD) on the taste and volatile profiles of Takifugu obscurus. Different drying ...
taste, etc ; Maillard reaction; Trachinotus ovatus; acetoin; aldehydes; dried fish; food chemistry; free amino acids; lipid peroxidation; odors; protein degradation; sweetness; temperature; umami; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Drying is an important process that can impart a different flavor to dried fish. The differences and sources of flavor of semi-dried golden pompano at different drying temperatures (40, 48, and 56 °C) were investigated, and the sensory quality, flavor substances, nonenzymatic reactions, and protein degradation were analyzed. Significant flavor differences were observed among different drying tempe ...
... To explore the contribution of different lipid oxidation stages to flavor formation in salted egg yolk, potential pathways of flavor formation were characterized by multi-omics strategy and partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM). 72 lipids, 135 metabolites and 5 volatiles related to lipid oxidation were screened out. The degradation of aldehydes and ketones, and the generation o ...
... For sustainable aquaculture, the replacement of dietary fishmeal with plant protein is becoming more common because fishmeal resources are limited. However, in the case of carnivorous fish such as yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata), reducing the dietary fishmeal level often causes low feed intake. Improving feed intake is important in the use of a non- and low-fishmeal diet. However, little is kn ...
... Beer is a popular drink and represents the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage in the world. In recent years, there has been a significant growth of independent craft breweries, even in countries without a brewing tradition. A craft brewery is usually defined as a small, independent and traditional brewery. Nowadays, consumers are looking for genuine, singular, different and high-quality produ ...
... Animals must modify their behavior based on updated expected outcomes in a changing environment. Prelimbic cortex (PrL) neural encoding during learning predicts, and is necessary for, appropriately altering behavior based on a new expected outcome value following devaluation. We aimed to determine how PrL neural activity encodes reward predictive cues after the expected outcome value of those cues ...
taste; taste receptors, etc ; dose response; enantiomers; food chemistry; glucose; hydrogen; optical isomerism; sweetness; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Naturally occurring sugars usually have d-chirality. While a change in chirality typically affects ligand–receptor interaction, non-caloric l-glucose was reported as sweet for humans. Here we show that l- and d-glucose have similar sensory detection thresholds (0.041 ± 0.006 M for d-glucose, and 0.032 ± 0.007 M for l-glucose) and similar sweetness intensities at suprathreshold concentrations. We d ...