Sensory and consumer research increasingly aims to gain direct input from children study their eating behaviour. However, answering self-administered questionnaires can be challenging for children. In this sense, the prediction of basic emotions via facial decoding, generating quantitative observational data, could offer an alternative questionnaires. The present aimed measure children’s implic...

We determined taste recognition thresholds for six compounds (sucrose, fructose, sodium chloride, quinine sulphate, PROP and liquorice) in fasting students and, in the same subjects, after a meal. The testing procedure was the staircase-method in blind conditions. Although taste sensitivity may vary with hormonal status, our results did not show any significant difference in taste recognition t...

This is a case report of a previously healthy woman of 56 years who presented with a life threatening tetraparesis, severe hypokalaemia, hypertension, and raised muscle enzymes. The cause of was finally found to be unusual and very much "local". Initial inquiry into her drug history was negative until she was made aware that herbal remedies could cause serious adverse reactions. She then mentio...

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Objective: to prepare and evaluate orally disintegrating films of liquorice inclusion complexes. Methods: the active components Chinese were extracted by pressurised extraction technique, complexes prepared antisolvent method, while buccal disintegration solvent casting evaluated. Results: home-made disintegrated formed better films, had good hardness toughness, thickness was around 0.1 mm coul...