This document discusses the perception of flavor from a neurological perspective. It defines taste as sensations detected by the tongue alone, while flavor is a multisensory perception incorporating taste, smell, sight, sound, temperature, and even pain. Smell is particularly important for flavor, with retronasal smell crucial for complex flavors. Enzymes play a key role in breaking down foods and releasing volatile molecules that stimulate our flavor receptors. The Maillard reaction is highlighted for its role in producing the attractive smells of cooked meat. Everything from texture to temperature to the sizzle of food contributes to the full flavor experience in the brain.
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No doubt flavour is one of the most important attributes of the food products we eat in our daily life. Man does not eat simply to live but even more so lives to eat. Flavourings are focused on altering or enhancing the flavours of natural food product or creating flavour for food products that do not have the desired flavours for example bakery goods and other snacks. Flavour is generally defined in terms of three components; odour, taste and texture. Its characterization is concern with the similarities in human flavour perception using methods that designed to average out the differences.
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No doubt flavour is one of the most important attributes of the food products we eat in our daily life. Man does not eat simply to live but even more so lives to eat. Flavourings are focused on altering or enhancing the flavours of natural food product or creating flavour for food products that do not have the desired flavours for example bakery goods and other snacks. Flavour is generally defined in terms of three components; odour, taste and texture. Its characterization is concern with the similarities in human flavour perception using methods that designed to average out the differences.
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Title: Sense of Taste
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the structure and function of taste buds.
Describe the relationship between the taste threshold and taste index of common substances.
Explain the chemical basis and signal transduction of taste perception for each type of primary taste sensation.
Recognize different abnormalities of taste perception and their causes.
Key Topics:
Significance of Taste Sensation:
Differentiation between pleasant and harmful food
Influence on behavior
Selection of food based on metabolic needs
Receptors of Taste:
Taste buds on the tongue
Influence of sense of smell, texture of food, and pain stimulation (e.g., by pepper)
Primary and Secondary Taste Sensations:
Primary taste sensations: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami
Chemical basis and signal transduction mechanisms for each taste
Taste Threshold and Index:
Taste threshold values for Sweet (sucrose), Salty (NaCl), Sour (HCl), and Bitter (Quinine)
Taste index relationship: Inversely proportional to taste threshold
Taste Blindness:
Inability to taste certain substances, particularly thiourea compounds
Example: Phenylthiocarbamide
Structure and Function of Taste Buds:
Composition: Epithelial cells, Sustentacular/Supporting cells, Taste cells, Basal cells
Features: Taste pores, Taste hairs/microvilli, and Taste nerve fibers
Location of Taste Buds:
Found in papillae of the tongue (Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate)
Also present on the palate, tonsillar pillars, epiglottis, and proximal esophagus
Mechanism of Taste Stimulation:
Interaction of taste substances with receptors on microvilli
Signal transduction pathways for Umami, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, and Salty tastes
Taste Sensitivity and Adaptation:
Decrease in sensitivity with age
Rapid adaptation of taste sensation
Role of Saliva in Taste:
Dissolution of tastants to reach receptors
Washing away the stimulus
Taste Preferences and Aversions:
Mechanisms behind taste preference and aversion
Influence of receptors and neural pathways
Impact of Sensory Nerve Damage:
Degeneration of taste buds if the sensory nerve fiber is cut
Abnormalities of Taste Detection:
Conditions: Ageusia, Hypogeusia, Dysgeusia (parageusia)
Causes: Nerve damage, neurological disorders, infections, poor oral hygiene, adverse drug effects, deficiencies, aging, tobacco use, altered neurotransmitter levels
Neurotransmitters and Taste Threshold:
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) on taste sensitivity
Supertasters:
25% of the population with heightened sensitivity to taste, especially bitterness
Increased number of fungiform papillae
Physiology of taste(It is the recognition of liquid phase stimuli and also detection of chemical to the taste buds where nerve axonal fibre present but only from taste bud required for carrying information from tongue to the cortical level.
The digestive system is used for breaking down food into nutrients which then pass into the circulatory system and are taken to where they are needed in the body. Ingest food
Break down food into nutrient molecules
Absorb molecules into the bloodstream
Rid the body of indigestible remains
There are four stages to food processing:
Ingestion: taking in food
Digestion: breaking down food into nutrients
Absorption: taking in nutrients by cells
Egestion: removing any leftover wastes
Teeth: Grinds your food.
Salivary Glands: Produce the saliva in your mouth.
Tongue: Helps to push food into your esophagus.
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11. The Obesity Epidemic
The food industry has gotten a bad rap for
their role in the obesity crisis.
12. The Obesity Epidemic
The food industry has gotten a bad rap for
their role in the obesity crisis.
Do they deserve it?
13. The Obesity Epidemic
Good Chefs can no longer get by on loading
food up with fat, sugar and salt and
Great chefs NEVER have.
~Dr. Russ L’HommeDieu
14. Always Know the Question
How does “Flavor”
Differ from
“Taste”?
15. “Taste”
Molecules sensed by receptors on the
tongue.
The neurons of the different tastes go
right to the brainstem and are
hardwired to emotions.
a. Saltiness is essential for maintaining
salty body fluids..
b. Sweetness is innate in all mammals,
because of sugar’s high energy.
c. Sourness warns of food that may
have gone bad.
d. Bitterness warns of toxic substances
that should be rejected.
e. Umami or Savoriness is a meaty
quality, signaling a high-energy food.
The problem is that “taste” does not
account for all the flavor that we can
experience.
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17. With only 126 “tastes”, how do you
explain . . .
Wine Flavor Coffee Flavor
18. “Flavor”
Taste impulses proceed
further to their cortical
areas, where they interact
with all the other sensory
representations at the core
of flavor.
(Adapted from G. M. Shepherd, Smell images and the flavour system in the human brain, Nature 444 [2006]: 316–321)
19. While taste is a sensation of the
tongue, flavor is a
multisensory perception
which includes
taste, touch, smell, vision,
emotion, hearing and even PAIN.
26. Why Does FLAVOR Matter?
“The human craving for flavor has been a largely
unacknowledged and unexamined force in
history. Royal empires have been built,
unexplored lands have been traversed. . .”
Eric Schlosser, in Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
27. Why Does FLAVOR Matter?
“. . . great religions and philosophies have been
forever changed by the spice trade. In 1492
Columbus set sail to find seasoning.”
Eric Schlosser, in Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
28. Why Does FLAVOR Matter?
“Today the influence of flavor in the world
market-place is no less decisive. The rise and fall
of corporate empires—of soft drink companies,
snack food companies, and fast food chains—is
frequently determined by how their products
taste.”
Eric Schlosser, in Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
30. The Perception of Flavor: Smell
Two Types of Smell
Orthonasal & Retronasal
31. The Perception of Flavor
Deconstructed: Smell
• Orthonasal
From Monell Chemical Senses Center
32. The Perception of Flavor
Deconstructed: Smell
• Orthonasal
From Monell Chemical Senses Center
33. The Perception of Flavor: Smell
• For flavor to be perceived, molecules need to
reach the olfactory epithelium, located in the
nasal cavity. This can be achieved through
orthonasal (sniff) or retronasal (mouth) airways.
• The intensity perceived will depend on the
number of molecules that reach the receptor
cells.
• Which type of “smell” do you think is most
important to flavor?
34. The Perception of Flavor: Smell
• Whereas taste is analytic,
smell is synthetic.
• What do you suppose this means?
35. The Perception of Flavor: Smell
• It means that smells combine and a
mixture of several smells makes a
new unified smell.
• Knowing what you now know about smell and flavor, how
might this relate to the complexity of human flavor
perception?
36. Smell: Intramodal Enhancement
• When two weak flavor molecules which cannot
be sensed by themselves (sub-threshold), but
together they can be perceived.
• This works for taste and smell together. A weak
smell and weak taste can be subthreshold by
themselves, but together they can be sensed.
• This usually only works if they complement each
other.
• This congruency may be innate, or it may be
learned.
37. Smell: The Molecules of Flavor
• We humans actually have a sense of smell that
is better than the most powerful molecule-detecting
devices available.
• We know this because we can perceive odors
in a food that come from molecules in such
trace amounts that they are undetectable by a
gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer.
38. The Perception of Flavor:
Plant Odors
• Fruit.
Ethylene (ethene) (C2H4) is a volatile molecule
that plays a central role in the ripening of fruit.
When we smell C2H4, we know the peak of
ripening is occurring.
39. The Perception of Flavor:
Plant Odors
• Terpene.
These are five-carbon molecules that can take
many forms. They are common constituents of
plants as well as of fruits, herbs, and spices. The
distinctive smell of pine trees in the forest is due
to terpenes in the tree resins. They are highly
volatile and therefore act quickly when raw
vegetables are cut or chewed, and they are
quickly lost in cooking. They are also highly
reactive with each other and with other
molecules.
Adapted from: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
40. The Perception of Flavor:
Plant Odors
• Sulfur.
Sulfur-containing molecules often are produced
by a plant for defensive purposes. They have an
aroma with an “edge” that gives a “pungent”
quality to the smell.
Adapted from: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
41. The Perception of Flavor:
Plant Odors
• Phenols.
These are six-member carbon-ring molecules with
a variety of side groups hanging off them.
Different phenolic compounds are responsible for
the main “notes” of different herbs and spices
.
Adapted from: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
42. The Perception of Flavor:
Plant Odors
• Green.
This aroma is faint until the plant tissue is torn
apart, or cut, as by a knife, or chewed. These
actions damage the cell membranes, causing an
oxidizing enzyme called lipoxygenase (lipid = fat,
oxygenase = to break down by combining with oxygen) to
act on the fatty molecules that make up the cell
membrane to break them down into small,
volatile fatty acids, which are further dismantled
by other enzymes in the cell contents.
Adapted from: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
44. ENZYMES
• Enzymes are super important for both flavor and
digestion.
• In fact, the process of digestion begins in the
mouth with an enzyme in the saliva called
amylase.
• The enzyme amylase works to break down starch
into simple sugars such as maltose and dextrin
that can be further broken down in the small
intestine.
• Did you know that about 30% of starch digestion
takes place in the mouth cavity.
45. ENZYMES
So, what is the role of enzymes in producing
flavor?
The role of enzymes in the perception of flavor is
to break down large molecules in food into
smaller molecules which alters their perception
by the flavor system.
46. Meat
• According to Richard Wrangham in his book Catching
Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, the great leap
forward in the development not only human cuisines,
but also the associated emergence of human culture
and language, was the discovery of the use of
controlled fire to cook foods.
• The greatest effect was achieved by cooking meat. Our
attraction to meat comes mostly from the smell, both
orthonasal and retronasal, smell from ingested food in
the mouth associated with flavor.
• The most attractive volatile molecules from cooked
meat are produced by the “Maillard reaction.”
47. Meat
• The Maillard reaction is a chemical reaction between
an amino acid and a reducing sugar, usually requiring
the addition of heat above 285°F (140°C).
• This is a form of non-enzymatic browning where the
sugar interacts with the amino acids in the meat.
• This process accelerates in an alkaline environment.
• This reaction is the basis of the flavoring industry,
since the type of amino acid determines the resulting
flavor.
48. The Perception of Flavor:
Sight
The sight of our food and drink before we
consume it has a highly significant influence on
how we judge its flavor.
49. The Perception of Flavor:
Sound
The sound of our food as we eat it is an integral
part of the flavor experience. Sizzle? Crunch?
50. The Perception of Flavor:
Feel
Does food texture contribute to the flavor of
food?
The different types of touch that food and liquid
produce in the mouth go to the brain to the
cortex.
The touch receptors in the mouth and tongue
have an enormous representation in the cortex,
which explains why the way our food feels in our
mouth contributes so heavily to taste.
51. The Perception of Flavor:
Pain
Pain commonly signals something to be avoided. Fish
bones, for instance.
While you would think that most people reject food
that causes pain in the mouth, many people learn to
LOVE the pain wrought by the capsaicin (N-Vanillyl-8-
methyl-6-(E)-noneamide ) molecules.
Where are they found? In chili peppers. This is an
example of how the hardwired aversive behavioral
responses at birth can be overcome by learning.
52. The Perception of Flavor:
Temperature
The temperature of food has and effect on all the
somato-sensory pathways for flavor.
53. What is the most important thing
for you to know?
When it comes to flavor, EVERYTHING counts. If
you want happy customers, maximize the flavor
(and thus the emotion) of their experience.
Don’t cop out with French fries (High Fat, High
Sugar, High Salt)
Be creative, be smart and be professional!
Among these inputs, smell is unique in going directly to the olfactory cortex in the forebrain limbic system, where it forms distributed memories of the smell stimuli represented as odor objects. Within the limbic system the smell objects therefore have direct access to brain systems for memory and emotion. The olfactory cortex further projects to the orbitofrontal cortex at the front of the brain, where it connects to the highest centers concerned with the uniquely human capacities for judgment and planning.