Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers

Global dietary sodium consumption significantly exceeds the WHO recommended intake levels, although strategies are available for sodium reduction, most are partial product-specific solutions. A wider range of approaches is urgently required to enable food manufacturers to reduce sodium within proces...

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Main Authors: Chiu, Natalie, Hewson, Louise, Yang, Ni, Linforth, Robert, Fisk, Ian D.
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Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28787/
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author Chiu, Natalie
Hewson, Louise
Yang, Ni
Linforth, Robert
Fisk, Ian D.
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Hewson, Louise
Yang, Ni
Linforth, Robert
Fisk, Ian D.
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description Global dietary sodium consumption significantly exceeds the WHO recommended intake levels, although strategies are available for sodium reduction, most are partial product-specific solutions. A wider range of approaches is urgently required to enable food manufacturers to reduce sodium within processed foods. In this study, the addition of air inclusions within hydrogels has been evaluated for its ability to enhance the delivery of sodium and perception of saltiness and was shown, on a volume basis, to achieve an 80% reduction in total sodium with no loss of saltiness perception; the addition of a congruent aroma volatile was shown to enhance overall flavour perception in foamed systems. Air inclusions were shown to increase both the delivery and perception of salt and aroma, in addition to increasing overall flavour perception. This work will be of interest to both academic researchers in this field and industrialists looking for new approaches to mitigate loss of taste quality with sodium reduction.
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spelling nottingham-287872020-05-04T20:07:12Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28787/ Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers Chiu, Natalie Hewson, Louise Yang, Ni Linforth, Robert Fisk, Ian D. Global dietary sodium consumption significantly exceeds the WHO recommended intake levels, although strategies are available for sodium reduction, most are partial product-specific solutions. A wider range of approaches is urgently required to enable food manufacturers to reduce sodium within processed foods. In this study, the addition of air inclusions within hydrogels has been evaluated for its ability to enhance the delivery of sodium and perception of saltiness and was shown, on a volume basis, to achieve an 80% reduction in total sodium with no loss of saltiness perception; the addition of a congruent aroma volatile was shown to enhance overall flavour perception in foamed systems. Air inclusions were shown to increase both the delivery and perception of salt and aroma, in addition to increasing overall flavour perception. This work will be of interest to both academic researchers in this field and industrialists looking for new approaches to mitigate loss of taste quality with sodium reduction. Elsevier 2015-09 Article PeerReviewed Chiu, Natalie, Hewson, Louise, Yang, Ni, Linforth, Robert and Fisk, Ian D. (2015) Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers. LWT - Food Science and Technology, 63 (1). pp. 65-70. ISSN 0023-6438 Salt Reduction Aroma Release Taste Delivery http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0023643815002510# doi:10.1016/j.lwt.2015.03.098 doi:10.1016/j.lwt.2015.03.098
spellingShingle Salt Reduction
Aroma Release
Taste Delivery
Chiu, Natalie
Hewson, Louise
Yang, Ni
Linforth, Robert
Fisk, Ian D.
Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers
title Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers
title_full Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers
title_fullStr Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers
title_full_unstemmed Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers
title_short Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers
title_sort controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers
topic Salt Reduction
Aroma Release
Taste Delivery
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28787/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28787/