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Americans Consume Far Too Much Salt and Sodium

... people may need to be told that foods that do not taste salty can still contain high levels of sodium. For example, a doughnut can have as much as 257 mg of sodium, about 10 percent of the recommended daily limit. Table salt is sodium chloride, but other chemicals containing sodium, such as monosodium gl...

A cheesy story!!!

... rate differently one has the primary criterion of taste while other rate it scientifically. "It is important to study consumer responses to food products and to check the results against defined quality standards and tolerance limits," according to Margrethe Hersleth of the Norwegian Food Research Inst...

Sweet pain releiver!

...have reported that the analgesic efficacy of sweet taste is influenced both by how much a child likes sweet taste and by the child's weight status. This appears in the Journal Pain. "Some children like sweets not ...

Worms Learn To Choose Their Diet

...g at the Rockefeller University revealed that good taste is not an inherent trait of worms. // The researc...and indulged on both. The worms depending on the taste adjusted themselves and learnt to avoid the pathogenic strains. Worms develop the dislike for pathog...

After sugar it is salt’s turn to come under the scientist's eye

... has been found that low weight babies have higher taste liking for salt. This study was conducted at Monel... Senses Centre//. It sheds light on the reason for taste preference of some people for salt. The results of the study points that a person's liking for sal...

Birth Weight of Babies Important Predictor for Salt Preference

...s light on the fact that individual preference for taste could be predetermined, more so in utero. Simila... variably so that they will get adapted to the new taste without any difficulty. The researchers further intend to explore the individual differences in li...

No need to hassel with children at meal time, just eat when pregnant!

... by revealing in a new study that children develop taste for particular foods even when in the womb. Making... passed on with mother's milk. Infants who had the taste when in the womb found the taste more appealing than those who were not. Dr Mennella tested the the...

Discovery of a built-in 'fat sensor'

New research suggests the tongue may have taste sensors dedicated to detecting fat, just as it doe...be linked to feeding dysregulation. The sense of taste informs the organism about the quality of ingested food. It is widely accepted that human taste buds...

Role Of Tobacco In Development Of Oral Cancer And Heart Disease

...and mouth sores besides reducing the acuity of the taste and smell. Tobacco has general consequences as well. Almost 50 percent of all coronary heart disease (CHD)-related deaths can be attributed to smoking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that smoking caused more CHD than lung cancer!...

Aloe Vera Coating For Fruits And Vegetables Preservation

...sh produce. The gel does not appear to affect food taste or appearance and shows promise as a safe, natural and environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional synthetic preservatives that are currently applied to produce after harvesting. Although a number of edible coatings have been developed to ...

PUFA Good For Heart: Gets The Scientific Seal

... and will continue to innovate to meet the health, taste and convenience requirements of consumers." According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a serving of margarine or a lower-calorie margarine spread has 2 grams or less of saturated fat per serving, compared to 7 grams in butter (see fsan.fda...

Tomato Extract Found To Reduce The Risk Of Thrombosis

...y by investing in R&D and developing products that taste great, deliver proven health benefits, and carry credible health claims supported by strong scientific proof. Medindia on Cancer And Super Foods: Their World The most dreaded and rampart diseases today are diabetes and cancer. The interesting th...

Tear-free Onions

...at it might be possible for tear-free GM onions to taste like onions. They have also found that the chemical in onions that makes you cry is not related to flavour. Researchers at the House Foods Corporation, University of Tokyo and Kyoto University,//tested the theory that the crying response to onions wa...

Learning Just How Different We Are

...ourth chromosome is responsible for sense of sweet taste and Identical twins have identical DNA but not identical fingerprints. Links from medindia: http://www.medindia.net/know_ur_body/ genetics.asp http://www.medindia.net/dietandnutrition /nutrition.asp...

Mango: the cancer combater

...at and charms one and all. Besides tantalising the taste buds it has been found to fight tumours and make cancer fret. Nutritionally mango is a rich source of beta-carotene, sugars and fibres. Now research conducted at Indian Toxicology Research Institute (ITRC), Lucknow based on experiments conducted in...

Can Ajinomoto cause cancer?

...roperty or compound. Aspartame apart from giving taste to the food it breaks down the building blocks protein of the body and helps to reduce obesity. The company also questioned the methods and records used by the Ramazzini institute in this study. Ramazzini institute for cancer research has submitted...

Choose the apple wisely to keep the doctor away

...e times ore polyphenol activity than flesh. "When taste and texture do not matter, choosing an apple with a high proportion of polyphenols in the flesh and skin can potentially produce more health benefits," said Tsao. Source: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, June....

Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage

...nd dissolved it in a liter jug, the water wouldn’t taste very salty," Shi said. "But even that would be more than a millimole, and that's much more acrolein than the body can handle at once." Because a high concentration of acrolein also has been linked to neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's,...

Understanding The Link Between Hunger and Taste

... tastes indicate edible substances, while a bitter taste may indicate a substance that should not be consum...rs say hunger could increase a person’s ability to taste by increasing the sensitivity of the taste receptors in the tongue or by simply changing the way a p...

Understanding Food Preferences in Kids

...g // sweet tooth. Researchers found variation in a taste receptor gene influences taste sensitivity in both children and adults. Age and culture also contribute to taste preferences and so...

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