New knowledge improves rice quality
...ime provide consumers with more nutritious, better tasting food. New scientific knowledge is allowing rice researchers to develop better quality rice varieties that could fetch a higher price from consumers, especially increasingly affluent rice consumers in Asia. The main aim of the new International N...Halos and horns: Fixing the 'taste' of diet soda
...hat's why diet lemon-lime drinks were perceived as tasting more like their non-diet counterpart than cola-flavored drinks," Lee said. "It's probably also the reason the new lime diet colas are so popular. The sour taste of the lime works with the carbonation to keep the mouth busy so the consumer doesn't n...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March 21, 2007
...offensive compounds, potentially leading to better tasting wine. A growing number of winemakers say that their wines have an abnormal aroma and flavor, known as ladybug taint, that resembles the bugs characteristic odor. Winemakers report that there are more ladybugs in vineyards and on the grapes during h...Ladybugs may be cute, but watch out when they get near wine
...compounds. Their study, which could lead to better tasting wine, was presented today at the 233rd national meeting of the American Chemical Society. A growing number of winemakers say that their wines have an abnormal aroma and flavor, known as ladybug taint, that resembles the bugs characteristic odor. Wi...Red hot chili pepper research spices up historical record
...ent disguiser," Raymond notes. "If something's not tasting quite right, you can always throw a few chilis in the pot."...Tiny 'housekeeper' crabs help prevent coral death in South Pacific
..., we do know that they are 'picky,' and are always tasting and exploring," said Hannah L. Stewart, first author of the paper and a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI). "They use their front appendages to manipulate and shovel out the sediment." Stewart said that this family of ...Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine
...er example of a protein required for both caffeine tasting and caffeine-induced behavior, will be published Sept. 19 in Current Biology. For the study, Montell and his colleagues kept 50 fruit flies away from food overnight and for breakfast gave the starved flies 90 minutes to eat as much as they wanted o...How sweet it isn't -- preference for alternatives to sugar based on sour, bitter tastes
...his or her mouth out thoroughly with water between tasting small samples of each compound. Most of the substances sampled in this study are already used by the food industry. A few of the sweet substances listed aren't typically used by the food industry as sweeteners. However, the researchers wanted to know...National Academies News: Spring Programs at the Koshland Science Museum
...he possible health advantages of cocoa, and lead a tasting and comparison of some of your favorite chocolate brands. Admission is $10; advance ticket purchase is required. FAMILY SCIENCE: ORIGAMI AND DNA, UNFOLDING LIFE'S MYSTERIES Saturday, April 29, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Designed for families with children 7...Taste gene may play role in smoking
...earchers did not find is any gender differences in tasting bitterness and smoking. Further research is planned into genetic influences on smoking....How taste response is hard-wired into the brain
...ies, they found that flies preferred to spend time tasting substances that activated the Gr5a neurons and avoided substances that activated Gr66a neurons. In the most telling experiments, the researchers engineered flies so that the hot pepper compound capsaicin would selectively switch-on either the sweet-d...New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers
...istening to music, or feeling tactile shapes while tasting food. This cross-activation might develop, they theorize, by a failure of the "pruning" of neural connections between the areas in the developing brain. The rare condition called synesthesia--in which people's sensory perceptual circuitry seems to be...Individual differences in taste perception directly related to genetic variation in taste receptors
... a person's perceptual sensitivity to these bitter tasting compounds corresponds strikingly well with their genetically-determined receptor sensitivity." In the paper, researchers at the Monell Center and collaborating institutions related individual perception of the bitter-tasting compounds PTC and PROP ...Feb. 17 sipping science: An evening of red wine tasting and wine science
...orter and educator Gray Mosby will talk about wine tasting and rating. Also speaking will be Gregory Jones, a research climatologist and viticulturalist who has studied the impact of global warming on wine production, and biochemist and molecular pharmacologist John Pezzuto, who will discuss the latest rese...Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene
...itter-tasting compound (propylthiouracil; PROP) as tasting either "like water" or "bitter or yucky." Having a bitter-sensitive allele (P) on the TAS2R38 receptor gene predicted sensitivity to the bitter taste of PROP in both children and mothers. While 70% of children and 50% of mothers with either AP or ......d his colleagues have found. Brain scans of people tasting the soft drinks reveal that knowing which drink they're tasting affects their preference and activates memory-related brain regions that recall cultural influences....