The incidence of obesity, type II diabetes mellitus, and metabolic syndrome in children adults show an alarming increase worldwide. This was supported by one factor: the increasing availability high-calorie foods beverages, thus need for sweeteners. Researchers are driven to find a sweetener that can replace sugar. One natural sweeteners be used is Stevia plant. contains stevioside, which with ...

Whole nerve, as well as single fiber, responses in the chorda tympani proper (CT) and glossopharyngeal (NG) nerves of common marmosets were recorded during taste stimulation with three salts, four acids, six bitter compounds and more than 30 sweeteners. We recorded responses of 49 CT and 41 NG taste fibers. The hierarchical cluster analysis distinguished three major clusters in both CT and NG: ...

To assess the effects of 2 high intensity sodium saccharine-based sweeteners on individual feed intake characteristics and performance of group-housed weaned pigs, one hundred ninety-eight 26-d-old weanling pigs were given ad libitum access to 3 dietary treatments containing: no additional sweetener (control), 150 mg of sweetener (Sucram C-150)/kg, or 150 mg of sweetener (Sucram 3D)/kg. At wean...

. DENTAL CARIES-THE ROLE OF DIETARY S T A R C H . . C O R N S T A R C H SWEETENERS A N D DENTAL H E A L T H . . ORAL RETENTION OF FOOD A N D CARIES RISK . . NON-SUGAR SWEETENERS . MALNUTRITION A N D DENTAL CARIES . DIETARY CAUSES OF DENTAL EROSION . THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOOTH LOSS, DIET AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS . . THE INFLUENCE OF TOOTH LOSS O N THE DIGESTION O F FOODS . . THE INFLUENCE OF T...

Various manufacturers especially in the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries employ sugars in their products. Sugars can be extracted from plant or microbial sources or they can be chemically synthesized. The majority of sugars are purchased as crystalline white powders and the most common examples are glucose, sucrose, lactose, fructose, maltose and xylitol. Protein-based sweeteners su...

Isotonic drinks can replace body fluids quickly because they contain electrolytes needed by the body. This study uses young coconut water as primary raw material with addition of pineapple juice to improve taste and nutritional value isotonic drinks. aimed determine characteristics adding different formulations sweeteners. used a factorial block randomized experimental design consisting two fac...

Two different second-messenger pathways have been implicated in sweet taste transduction: sugars produce cyclic AMP (cAMP), whereas synthetic sweeteners stimulate production of inositol 1,4, 5-tris-phosphate (IP(3)) and diacylglycerol (DAG). Both sugars and sweeteners depolarize taste cells by blocking the same resting K(+) conductance, but the intermediate steps in the transduction pathways ha...

In this chapter we review the role and potential benefits of non-caloric sweeteners, as part of the diet. After appearing and interest in the beneficial effects attributed to them, face different situations and conditions (obesity, diabetes...), more and more numerous studies, show their ineffective use. In conclusion, further research and results are needed to provide convincing evidence of th...