Relationships between the response of the sweet taste receptor, salivation toward sweeteners, and sweetness intensity.

ABSTRACT: Sweeteners are widely used in food products, and their sweetness potency is usually evaluated by comparing it with that of sucrose. This, however, has led to confusion as some sweeteners are evaluated based on their maximum value of sweet taste response, while others are evaluated by their threshold value. Here, we aimed to develop a novel nonverbal sweetness evaluation system through the sweet taste signal transduction by comparing the responses of the sweet taste receptor, salivation, taste intensity, and preference among six sweeteners. The hT1r2/hT1r3 sweet taste receptor responses represented the input signal of the sweet taste signal transduction, while salivation, sweet taste intensity, and participants' preferences represented the output signals by the gustatory-salivary reflex, pr

SUBMITTER: Kusakabe Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7866590 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature