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Study: Children's Salty, Sweet Taste Preferences Linked to Growth

Children who were tall for their age preferred sweeter solutions, and children with higher amounts of body fat preferred saltier soups.

Study Addresses Children's Aversion to Bitter-Tasting Medicine

A new review highlights recent advances in the scientific understanding of bitter taste, with special attention to the sensory world of children.

Study Finds Obese Children Have Difficulty Detecting Certain Tastes

Obese subjects could identify taste qualities less precisely than children and adolescents of normal weight

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There’s Chemistry in Them Chili Peppers!

This article describes the chemistry behind the flavor, aroma, and pungency of chili peppers to assist in flavor creation.

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SFC Hosts February Meeting in Philadelphia

The Society of Flavor Chemists will be hosting their next meeting on February 16, 2017 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.

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Nactis Flavors Hires Achille Riviello

Nactis Flavors has announced the hiring of Achillle Riviello as director of Synarome F&F specialties business unit.

Children's Environmental Health and Safety Risk Reduction Act

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has introduced legislation, S. 3502, the Children's Environmental Health and Safety Risk Reduction Act, to provide for the establishment of a task force to address the environmental health and safety risks posed to children.

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The Society of Flavor Chemists Meets at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia

Shane McDonald, media chair for the Society of Flavor Chemists, discussed the meeting and movement of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Sweet Preferences Among Children Tied to Family, Biology

The results show that lowering refined sugars in children’s diets may require more sophisticated strategies.

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Sweetness Sensation Linked to Bitter Receptor, Varies in Children

Genotype analysis revealed that sucrose thresholds and sensitivity were related to variation in the bitter receptor gene but not in the two sweet receptor genes.

Study Strengthens Link between Diacetyl and Lung Disease

A recent study conducted by scientists at the National Toxicology Program evaluated the respiratory toxicity of diacetyl in mice at exposure profiles relevant to workplace conditions at microwave popcorn packaging plants.

Study: Sweet Taste Pecerption May Be Altered By Stress Hormone

Study finds that sweet taste perception and intake may be specifically affected via secretion of Glucocorticoid (GC) hormones and subsequent activation of GC receptors in taste cells.

Aroma Trades Studies for the 21st Century

The “aroma trades” constitute a global supply chain bringing flavored and fragranced products to enhance consumers’ enjoyment around the world. Within the supply chain is an army of specialists required to maintain and develop the industry.

Monell Study Shows Starchy Foods Affect Infants Salt Preference

Study shows how starchy food intake at an early age may affect salt and salty food preferences later in life.

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Patent Pick: Sweet Tea Stands Jasmine Strong

We could all use more balance in our lives, as increased ailments and anxiety in society indicate. Perhaps we could all take a leaf—jasmine leaf, that is—from the pages of these inventors in their patent application for a balanced tea flavor.

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House Says No to State GMO Labeling Patchwork; Yes to National Standard

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, which prevents a patchwork of conflicting state or local GMO labeling laws [update includes comments from FEMA, GMA].

A Structured Approach toward Standardized Specifications for the Flavor Industry

A structured approach to improving efficiencies, quality and safety.

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Campbell Starts to Label 'GMO'

Campbell Soup has become the first company to prepare a label to comply with pending genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling.

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