Does chemical modification of tastants merely enhance their intrinsic taste qualities?

Perception and acceptance of selected high-intensity sweeteners and blends in model soft drinks by propylthiouracil (PROP) non-tasters and super-tasters

“…This could be due to carryover of bitterness from ACE, even though we tried to minimize such effects in our study design. Like sucrose, SUC is reported to produce some sourness and drying of the mouth (Wiet & Miller, 1997). Dryness is a component of astringency (dryness, roughness, puckeryness), a tactile sensation that is typically associated with the sourness and bitterness of acids (Peleg & Noble, 1995;Sowalsky & Noble, 1998).…”

“…Aspartame and sucralose are reported to have a relatively clean sweet taste with little persistence of bitterness (Nabors, 2002). In addition, sucralose imparts lingering sweetness (Hanger, Lotz, & Lepeniotis, 1996;Ketelsen, Keay, & Wiet, 1993;Wiet & Miller, 1997) and mouth drying equivalent to sucrose (Wiet & Miller, 1997).…”

“…Blending takes advantage of the phenomenon of synergy among sweeteners (Ayya & Lawless, 1992;Wiet & Miller, 1997). Synergy is typically observed for sweeteners that exhibit different flavor profiles, particularly if one of the sweeteners is bitter.…”

“…Blending tends to enhance the sweetening power beyond the sum of the individual sweeteners, creating an improved flavor profile. Typical blends include aspartame-saccharin, aspartame-acesulfame-K and sucralose-acesulfame-K (Meyer & Riha, 2002;Nabors, 2002;Wiet & Miller, 1997). Diet soft drinks sweetened with as many as four sweeteners have been successfully marketed (Nabors, 2002).…”

Photo Degradation of Cotnaminants of Emerging concern (CECs) under Simulated Solar Radiation: Implications for their Environmental Fate

“…The most familiar consumer product of sucralose is Splenda, which contains 1% sucralose and 99% maltodextrin and dextrose. It is 600 times sweeter by weight than sucrose (Wiet and Miller, 1997). The structures and physical properties of all targeted CECs i.e., antibiotics, DOSS and sucralose were presented in their respective chapters.…”