This study aimed to investigate the relationship between taste and odor through the phenomenon called retronasal odor enhancement by sweet taste. The specific sweet tastants used were zero or low calorie sweeteners. Experiment 1 used an aqueous model system where subjects sampled of vanilla solutions with and without five different...
Increased sales of surimi seafood, with the majority as crabstick in the United States indicates that surimi based products are becoming more popular. With growing popularity, there is increased competition for market share. Under these circumstances, some companies may be willing to sacrifice product quality in order to facilitate manufacture...
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Jae W. Park
protein. The protein content and quality of raw surimi are varied by fish
Due to a combination of misinterpretation and misleading illustration, the premise of a “tongue map”, which indicated that sweetness could only be detected at the front of the tongue and bitterness could only be detected on the back, became wide spread. In fact, all taste qualities can be detected on...
Given the many significant roles that bacteria play in modern food manufacturing, it is crucial that we have a fundamental understanding of how bacterial communities assemble and behave in the food manufacturing environment. The focus of this dissertation was to investigate both the spatial and temporal distributions of microbial communities...