Transcript 7c – PPT Fast food facts on human development

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Fast facts on food and diet
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Bitter pill to swallow
Grapefruit juice contains compounds that block
enzymes involved in metabolising a range of drugs, so
drug levels stay higher for longer. These drugs
include calcium-channel
blockers used to treat high
blood pressure.
Source: Bailey DG et al.
Lancet 1991;337(8736):268–9.
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Souper-filling
Eating soup makes you feel full for longer than eating
solid food with a glass of water. Why? Water mixed
with solids (e.g. soup) stays in the stomach longer than
water alone.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk/1
/hi/magazine/8068733.stm
Stomach, pancreas, spleen and
gall bladder
Medical Art Service, Munich,
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Sounds delicious
Work at the University of Oxford has found that people
tend to associate sweet and sour tastes with
high-pitched sounds and umami tastes (e.g. Marmite)
and bitter tastes with low-pitched
Sounds. Also, that people enjoy
food more when ‘matching’ music
is played during eating.
Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
pubmed/20952795
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A meaty issue
Cats are unable to detect sweet-tasting food
because one of the two genes needed is inactive.
Unlike humans, though, they can taste
adenosine triphosphate (ATP),
a signal for meat.
Source: www.scientificamerican.com/
article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-cats
cannot-taste-sweets
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Tongue-tingling tastes
Jelly containing fresh pineapple, papaya and kiwi won’t
set as the proteases in them break down the protein
gelatin in the jelly. The proteases also digest some of
the proteins in your mouth and
tongue when you eat these fruits,
causing tingling and stinging!
Source: www.thenakedscientists.com
/HTML/content/kitchenscience/exp/
science-of-fruit-jellies/
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