NEWS ARTICLES
FACTORS INFLUENCING TASTE PERCEPTION- Volume 2
by Dr. Marli Botha Many of us take our sense of taste for granted, but a taste disorder can have a negative effect on your health and quality of life. If you are having a problem with your sense of taste, you are not alone. Scientists believe that up to 15 percent of adults might...
FACTORS INFLUENCING TASTE PERCEPTION – Volume 1
by Dr. Marli Botha There are countless factors that can influence taste perceptions, ranging from an individual’s age to the temperature of the food. These variables are extremely important for food & beverage industry specialists to consider when evaluating and developing new products. How people perceive taste makes all the difference…! Here are some interesting factors that influence your taste perceptions: Taste...
SENSORY PERCEPTION: BATTLE OF THE SEXES
by Dr. Marli Botha When comparing the sense of taste and smell between men and women in how they identify flavour, should we expect a difference? If our male ancestors hunted and our female ancestors gathered plant-based foods, who could benefit from having a strong sense of smell and taste? Here are some interesting facts about...
SENSORY PERCEPTION: FLAVOUR AND ODOR
by Dr. Marli Botha Sensory perception of a foodstuff includes appearance, odour, flavour, taste and texture attributes. Flavour consists of taste and odour and thereby involves gustatory and olfactory responses. Different regions of the tongue detect different taste sensations, such as the tip of the tongue recognizes sweet taste while the back detects bitterness. Odour,...
SENSORY PERCEPTION: TASTE
by Dr. Marli Botha Taste is the most basic sense and refers to the detection of the chemicals that make up food. Taste is sometimes confused with flavour (flavour is actually your taste and your sense of smell working in conjunction with each other to form a perception). Taste is received through sensory organs such...
WHICH CAME FIRST: ORANGE THE COLOR OR ORANGE THE FRUIT?
by Dr. Marli Botha There are very few pure colour names like black, white, red, blue, green or brown; most of the hundreds of words we use for colours come from things such as fruit, flowers, precious stones and other objects, for example cerise, turquoise, indigo, violet, amber… The citrus definitely got named first. The earliest...
