Sweetness reception in man: The multipoint attachment theory

Food Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 263-274

  Nofre, Claude ^a   Tinti, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SWEETENING AGENT;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HYDROGEN BOND; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECOGNITION; SWEETNESS; THEORY;

EID: 0029990789     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0308-8146(96)00023-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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