
Academic Consortium Publications for June 2024
Each month, we celebrate a recent peer-reviewed publication from a member of the Compusense Academic Consortium. For June, we celebrate Qianqian Guo, Christos Ritzoulis, Jianshe Chen, Jing Xu, and Xinmiao Wang for showing how saliva foam affects aroma perception. Four sensory assessors evaluated chewing gum samples using the time-intensity (TI) method. Samples were served with and without a defoaming agent. During their TI evaluations, exhaled breath of these assessors was captured and analyzed. The defoaming agent led to reduced saliva bubble formation, less exhaled menthol, and a less intense minty aroma. Without the foaming agent, saliva bubbles actively formed and popped, the exhaled menthol concentrations were higher, and minty aroma perceptions were more intense. Did you ever expect drool to be this interesting? Read more on this study in the LWT publication titled “Saliva bubbles: How saliva foam impacts aroma release and retronasal perception during oral processing”, which is just one of the fine June publications from the Compusense Academic Consortium.