Paediatric medication non-adherence is associated with increased morbidity.1 A major barrier to adherence in paediatrics the inadequacy of available oral drug suspension formulations for children terms palatability, volume required, frequency administration and small number proprietary products available.2 The combination children's heightened bitterness sensitivity their aversion smell texture...

Pedigree segregation analysis was used to examine several one- and two-locus models of the inheritance of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) taste deficiency that extend the traditional one-locus recessive model by the addition of either another allele or another locus, and in some cases predict two types of nontasters. These models allow nontaster by nontaster matings to produce taster offspring, consi...

In order to understand wine perception we analyzed tasting notes of four expert wine tasters. The analysis is based on co-occurrence calculations of words within the tasting notes using ALCESTE software. The results of such an analysis of one subject's notes give us word classes reflecting main text ideas and organization of the text. In the present paper we interpret these "results" as follows...

The taste system has evolved to make nutritious foods attractive and toxic substances aversive so as to achieve a maximal health benefit for the organism. However, evolution has not kept up with changes in human diet and lifestyle, including the development of life-saving, but bitter tasting pharmaceuticals, and the over abundance of high calorie, sweet tasting, food. The recent identification ...

In this article, we analyse a 2013 press conference hosting the world's first tasting of a laboratory grown hamburger. We explore this as a media event: an exceptional performative moment in which common meanings are mobilised and a connection to a shared centre of reality is offered. We develop our own theoretical contribution - the promotional public - to characterise the affirmative and part...

Children’s preference for fruit and vegetables must emerge during childhood. At children’s homes, mothers fathers influence developing food preferences with their own actions. The purpose of the study was to reveal association parents have vegetable preferences. conducted in a sample Finnish 3–5-year-old children. participants were recruited, questionnaires distributed through early childhood e...