A new study carried out by the Monell Center found out that food texture is perceived differently, depending on individuals and the amount of a salivary enzyme they produce.People have preferences when it comes to food and this is caused by an oral enzyme called salivary amylase.Study lead author Abigail Mandel, a nu... |
14 October 2010
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A new study performed by Dolores Piperno, a staff scientist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with Tom Dillehay, an archeology professor at Vanderbilt University, focused on analyzing teeth of ancient Peruvians. The research was aimed at dete... |
2 December 2008
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According to a recent statement coming from PaperFoam CEO, Hans Arentsen, Apple has ordered "millions of PaperFoam packages" for its new iPhone 3G. Committed to reducing its environmental impact, Apple has chosen paper tray (made of potato starch) packaging for the new device.TUAW points out to an open letter signed ... |
2 July 2008
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You may have heard that the snake venom in some species starts the digestion of the prey before being swallowed. Spiders put into their meals abundant saliva quantities that turn the body of an insect into a juice that the spider sucks. But even if a human doesn't start digesting the juicy steak from its mouth, ... |
12 September 2007
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They may not have watched TV and drunk beer in America 7,300 years ago, but they indulged on popcorn, as a new research at Florida State University revealed. That's the approximate age when ancient Mexicans started to cultivate the base of their cuisine, 1,200 years earlier than previously believed.The team lead... |
11 April 2007
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You may not know, but if you are addicted to vanilla flavor, you're addicted to ... orchids. Because the vanilla stick is nothing else than the fermented and blackened pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia, that occurs naturally in ... Mexico.There are about 35,000 species of orchids in the world: about one eight... |
26 March 2007
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