A Spoonful of Bitter Helps the Sugar Response Go Down

Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine ( and Vaccine ) Go Down

Acetalated Dextran: A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine (and Vaccine) Go Down The Ainslie Lab strives to enhance the delivery of drugs and vaccines through the application of biomaterials. To this end we apply the novel polymer Acetalated Dextran (Ac-DEX). AcDEX nano/microparticles are ideal for targeting phagocytic cells and can activate gateway immune cells, like dendritic cells or macroph...

A Little Bit of Sugar Helps the Pill Go Down: Resilience, Peace, and Family Planning; Comment on “The Pill Is Mightier Than the Sword”

The article by Potts et al, “The Pill is Mightier than the Sword,” points out that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency, ultimately helping peacebuilding efforts. Evidence has demonstrated that family planning programs are cost effective, produce quick results, help women and couples meet their desired fertility level...

"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down": bitter masking by sucrose among children and adults.

Sweeteners are often added to liquid formulations of drugs but whether they merely make them better tasting or actually reduce the perception of bitterness remains unknown. In a group of children and adults, we determined whether adding sucrose to urea, caffeine, denatonium benzoate, propylthiouracil (PROP), and quinine would reduce their bitterness using a forced-choice method of paired compar...

Metabolic danger of high-fructose corn syrup

The food industry has long known that "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way." And cane sugar had been America's most delightful sweetener of choice, that is, until the 1970s, when the much less expensive corn-derived sweeteners like maltodextrin and high-fructose corn syrup were developed. While regular table sugar (sucrose) is 50% fructose and 50% glucose, ...

case challenge A Spoonful of Cinnamon Makes the Medicine Go Down