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AUTHOR
Maria Amparo Tarrega Guillem
Chewing simulation as a tool for understanding food oral processing
International audience
Chewing simulation: a way to understand relationships between mastication, food breakdown and flavour release
International audience; Flavour release during eating foods is mainly function of the physico-chemical properties of the food matrix and of what occurs in mouth during the chewing process. The understanding of in-mouth mechanisms leading to food breakdown should help to understand flavour release phenomenon.
Chewing simulation: a way to understand the relationships between mastication, food breakdown and flavour release
International audience; Understanding in-mouth mechanisms is necessary to understand flavour release and perception phenomena. To overcome the limitations of in-vivo flavour release measurements, we developed a chewing simulator that faithfully reproduced many mouth functions. Using brittle foods, we showed that in-vitro food breakdown was very comparable to that obtained in-vivo. We also studied on model cheeses in-vitro flavour release by connecting on-line the chewing simulator to APCI-MS. Preliminary results are discussed.