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‘Unraveling Mouthfeel – A novel approach to understand taste’

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“Unraveling Mouthfeel – A novel approach to understand taste”. Dat is de titel van het proefschrift van T.A.S.T.E. PhD kandidaat Georgios Agorastos. Hij heeft zijn proefschrift op 13 juni verdedigd bij de Universiteit van Maastricht.

De hypothese dat smaak kon worden ingedeeld op basis van mondgevoel en smaakintensiteit is voor het eerst wetenschappelijk onderbouwd in het proefschrift van Peter Klosse (The Concept of Flavor Styles to classify flavors, Maastricht 2004). De Stichting TASTE heeft de afgelopen jaren met ondersteuning van de provincie Limburg smaak diepgaand verder onderzocht.

Mondgevoel verenigt de klassieke sensorische smaakbenadering en de moleculaire invalshoek van voedseltechnologie. Het zogenoemde mondgevoelmodel geeft nieuwe inzichten in de opbouw van smaak en smaakwaarneming. In dit onderzoek konden fysisch-chemische analyses worden gecorreleerd aan de sensorische waarnemingen van smaakpanels en de belangrijkste parameters van het mondgevoelmodel. De analyses werden uitgevoerd in de universiteitslaboratoria van Maastricht en Wageningen.

WORK IN PROGRESS: PhD Sensory Analysis 2018- 2022

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T.A.S.T.E.,  in collaboration with Maastricht University campus Venlo, has selected an outstanding candidate, Georgios Agorastos, for a PhD- project in Sensory Analysis. Georgios will investigate the current sensory analysis methods and how these can be improved. This project is an integral part of developing scientific insight in taste and more specifically in the interaction effects of the various factors that play a role in mouthfeel as part of taste perception.

Georgios Agorastos has recently passed the Master examination in the Food and Technology program of Wagingen University and is experienced in technological laboratory research and has the quantitative skills that are required to analyze (historical) data on taste perception and to show connections between quantitative and qualitative data.

Collaboration T.A.S.T.E. – Maastricht University – Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
The PhD research fits seamlessly into the ambitions as formulated by Maastricht University Campus Venlo. There is a collaboration between the TASTE Foundation, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (Research Center Gastronomy) and UM Campus Venlo. In this collaboration, this research will be integrated as much as possible in the existing and planned research and development processes.

T.A.S.T.E. The Academy of Scientific Taste Evaluation was founded by Dr. Peter Klosse in 2017. One of its goals is to do research in the field of flavor and taste. Klosse defended his flavor classification model successfully and got his PhD from Maastricht University in 2004. Nationally, but also increasingly internationally he is considered to be an authority in gastronomy. He is often referred to as the Taste Professor. The mission of T.A.S.T.E. is to promote the use of tasty and healthy food. By learning more about why something is experienced as tasty, that knowledge can be used to get a better future for people (physically and psychologically healthier, more energetic and fitter), farmers and producers (more successful) and the environment (more sustainable).

For more information send an email to contact@tasteresearch.org

TASTE Summit 2018

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The second TASTE Summit on October 9 2018 at the MECC Maastricht, was a succes. Theme of the second version of this summit was  VITAL Food. The importance of eating real foods and the importance of the movement against ultra-processed foods was convincingly highlighted by prof. Carlos Monteiro from Sao Paolo Barsil and organizer Dr. Peter Klosse. The effect of real foods on the brain were illustrated by the founders of Thimus from Bozen, Italy. 

Food professionals of today and the future and academics assure the importance of this kind of sessions of the TASTE Summit.

More info on the Taste summit 2019? Check out our website: http://www.taste-summit.com/

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