Interaction of the Chemical Senses with Nutrition

Interaction of the Chemical Senses with Nutrition
ISBN-10
0123978556
ISBN-13
9780123978554
Category
Science
Pages
520
Language
English
Published
1986
Authors
Joseph G. Brand, Morley Richard Kare

Description

Interaction of the Chemical Senses with Nutrition provides an understanding of the relationship of smell and taste to nutrition. This book discusses how the flavor of food can have substantial physiological effects influencing ingestion, digestion, and metabolism. Organized into five parts encompassing 21 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the significant role of saliva, which is involved in diet-taste relationships through dietary effects on saliva and salivary effects on taste perception. This text then reviews the literature on early salt acceptance in humans, contrasting and co ...

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