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Taste receptor for carbonation discovered, claim scientists

19-Oct-2009 - , including salty, sweet, bitter, sour and umami (or savory) taste perception. But the authors of this latest

Vegetable concentrate provides clean label sodium reduction

28-May-2009 - manufacturers to reduce sodium by up to 25 percent, while also enhancing savory, or ‘umami’, flavors, claims

MSG may reduce body weight gain: Ajinomoto study

15-Oct-2008 - MSG, Ajinomoto, umami

Dried fish stock may be salt enhancer for food

11-Aug-2008 - umami substance, is known to be a major contributor to the flavor that has ensured the popularity

New taste technology to drive flavor innovation

28-Jul-2008 - and interactions of the five taste modalities – sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami. Cargill said

Flavor enhancer to reduce costs and salt

18-Jul-2008 - A new umami ingredient has been launched as a possible alternative to monosodium glutamate which ... A new umami ingredient has been launched as a possible alternative to monosodium glutamate which ... UmamiPrime contains no glutamate and delivers "strong umami taste", according , bitter, salty, sour and umami. This is a taste of many different amino acids, or the building blocks ... IFF, FDA, umami, MSG

Senomyx reports growth balanced with R&D costs

24-Apr-2008 - , the company had used a patented umami receptor assay to identify novel savory ingredients that were

Senomyx and Nestle collaborate beyond savory flavors

16-Apr-2008 - approaches. Previously, the company had used a patented umami receptor assay

Flavor trends go local, ethnic and healthy

31-Jan-2008 - becoming more Americanized. Flavor and Freshness Umami, one try to enhance the umami characteristics of their products. Flavors expected

Sweet and savory patents help secure new flavors

14-Jan-2008 - . In the past, Senomyx said it has used a patented umami receptor assay to identify novel savory ingredients : * Binding assays that use the T1R1/T1R3 (umami) taste receptor to identify compounds that elicit or modulate

News in brief

Chemists add soy sauce to ‘perfect’ gravy

23-Oct-2009 - is said to bring out the meaty (umami) flavour.

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Givaudan focuses on umami for clean label taste enhancement

20-Aug-2009 - Givaudan focuses on umami for clean label taste enhancement ... Givaudan has developed a new range of flavour ingredients focusing on umami in order to allow ... Givaudan has developed a new range of flavour ingredients focusing on umami in order to allow ... Umami is one of the five taste sensations detectable by humans, together with sweet, bitter terms of taste, many customers consider umami and clean label enhancement to be as important as salt ... umami, MSG

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Low-salt foods may get taste boost from Japanese fish stock

20-Aug-2009 - (excluding umami) of dried bonito stock, while its characteristic aroma and umami were involved in preventing the popularity of dried bonito as a stock, and like MSG is another typical umami substance. Potential

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'Electronic tongue' could aid sweetened formulations

18-Aug-2009 - to detect sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. The real thing Previous research into taste has , and umami, which work with a signal through a G-protein coupled receptor; salty and sour which work with ion

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New NIZO tool may quicken search for flavour enhancers, maskers

10-Aug-2009 - and umami. De Kok also notes that the human nose has 300 different aroma receptors. Furthermore, texture

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Study 'confirms' umami taste receptor

09-Jul-2009 - Study 'confirms' umami taste receptor ... Scientists have ‘confirmed’ the role of a specific taste receptor in human umami taste, a result ... Scientists have ‘confirmed’ the role of a specific taste receptor in human umami taste, a result ... variation in sensitivity to the perceived intensity of umami taste. The two proteins combine to form , umami makes up the five taste sensations detectable by humans. It is the taste quality associated ... umami, taste receptor

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Vinegar could be used for salt reduction: Study

29-May-2009 - receptor, which is yet to be discovered, even though taste receptors for sweet, umami, sour and bitterness

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Ohly upgrades torula yeast extract

30-Apr-2009 - , the amino acid responsible for the umami savoury taste. Mary Jo Poeschel, applications technology with the glutamic acid, making the flavour and umami impact last longer. The main use of Provesta 512

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Researchers propose ‘Venus flytrap’ working of umami receptors

05-Jan-2009 - Researchers propose ‘Venus flytrap’ working of umami receptors ... , umami, with potential implications for understanding taste preferences and undercovering the workings ... , umami, with potential implications for understanding taste preferences and undercovering the workings ... Together with sweet, bitter, salty and sour, umami makes up the five taste sensations detectable and Biopredict say that the umami taste of L-glutamate, an amino acid, can be “drastically enhanced” by 5 ... taste receptors, umami

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Nestle collaboration to target genes and taste perception

09-May-2008 - that the human tongue has about 10,000 taste buds with five taste sensations: sweet, bitter, and umami, which

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