Current Research on Taste Perception in Mixtures and Complex Food and Beverage Systems
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2021)
Special Issue Editors
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Dear Colleagues,
Human taste research has seen enormous progress in the past years. In the periphery, taste receptors have been discovered and were associated with taste stimuli and the corresponding signal transduction components had been studied in great detail. Moreover, studies devoted to the central taste pathway have resulted in a better and better understanding of taste reception and its impact on nutrition. Even the putative roles of non-gustatory taste receptors are beginning to emerge. However, when it comes to taste perception in complex food items or even simple tastant mixtures surprising findings and unexplained phenomena are rather the rule and not the exception. The special issue is devoted to point out such phenomena and to provide answers to unexplained mixture effects or, at least, formulate research questions to address these issues. In the end, all humans consume complex food items on a daily basis and we need to understand how they affect our food choices and, ultimately, our health.
Dr. Maik Behrens
Prof. Veronika Somoza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Tastant mixtures
- Taste of complex food
- Taste - food matrix interaction.
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