Human psychometric and taste receptor responses to steviol glycosides

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 6782-6793

  Hellfritsch, Caroline ^a   Brockhoff, Anne ^a   Stähler, Frauke ^b   Meyerhof, Wolfgang ^b   Hofmann, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

Author keywords

stevia; steviol glycosides; sweetener; taste modulation; taste receptors

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTERIC MODULATION; CELL-BASED; CONSUMER DEMANDS; CROSS-MODAL; DOUBLE BONDS; DOWNSTREAM-PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; HIGH-POTENCY SWEETENERS; HUMAN SENSORY; NATURAL FOOD; ORGANOLEPTIC PROPERTIES; POSTHARVEST; PYRANOSE; STEVIA; STEVIA REBAUDIANA; STEVIOSIDES; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SWEET TASTE; SWEETENER; TASTE RECEPTORS; TASTE SENSATION;

FOOD ADDITIVES; PATHOGENS; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; SUGARS;

GLYCOSIDES;

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLYCOSIDE; KAURANE DERIVATIVE; STEVIOL; SWEETENING AGENT; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PSYCHOMETRY; STEVIA; TASTE;

ADULT; DITERPENES, KAURANE; FEMALE; GLYCOSIDES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANT LEAVES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; STEVIA; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

STEVIA REBAUDIANA;

EID: 84863914032     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf301297n     Document Type: Article

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