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both the nutritive and the non-nutritive sweetener pathways;
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how they react to different types of signals
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around sensory perception with taste and flavor particularly.
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We know now for example, that sensory perception occurs not just
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in the mouth and tongue,
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but it occurs through the upper GI tract.
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Signals are sent from there to the brain which have impacts
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on your feeling of satiety or your desire to eat or not to eat.
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How do we actually take that knowledge in a way
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in which it's responsible and make sure that food design
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actually has the desired effect of not encouraging overeating
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and actually encourages people to be on a healthy path of consumption?