Background: Essential oils of medicinal plants such as chamomile are very complex natural mixtures which can contain compounds at quite different concentrations and some of their components have antioxidant and antimicrobial activities in foodstuff. Objective: The antioxidant and antimicrobial effects of chamomile essential oil in cake preparation were evaluated during 75 days of storag...

ions and is widely used to determine the activity and concentration of hydrogen ions. Metal ion-selective electrodes, such as potassium ions and calcium ions, are also commercially available. Drug ion selective electrodes are prepared and are used to determine the concentrations of drug ions. Other applications of drug ion electrodes include studies of protein binding of drug ions, mechanisms o...

Until recently, almost all debates concerning the neural coding of taste have focused on the labeled line (LL) and across neuron pattern (ANP) hypotheses. The former theory postulates that the identity of a taste on the tongue is signaled by activity in the particular subset of neurons dedicated to that task (the sodium neurons, for example); the latter postulates that tastant identity is signa...

The purpose of this community service is to increase the knowledge women in village Ulee Pulo, North Aceh Regency, Indonesia about processing techniques pond cultivation products, namely milkfish onion crackers. This activity used a survey method and direct outreach. consisted determining location group, while outreach preparing materials tools, processing, organoleptic testing (scoring test). ...

This study examined salty taste acuity and salty taste preference and sodium intake in relation to zinc nutritional status in 2 rural populations in Korea. And we also examined the main food contributors of their sodium intakes. We enrolled 218 adults (66 men and 152 women) from the Kangneung and Samcheok regions in Korea's Kangwon province in our study conducted from December 2011 to February ...

Notable progress has been made relating individual differences in bitter taste sensitivity to specific alleles and TAS2R receptors, but psychophysical evidence of reliable phenotypes for other tastes has been more elusive. In this issue, Wise and Breslin report a study of individual differences in threshold sensitivity to sour and salty taste, which, though failing to find clear phenotypes, exe...