EUROPEAN FOOD RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
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2022
·Vol. 248
·期 12
·3003-3013
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IF 3.498
Che Tong,Yang Minghong,Li Zhengxiang,Hu Xujia
Low-calorie sweeteners are widely used to replace or reduce sugar in foods and beverages, and the taste and texture of existing sweeteners are far from that of real sugar. The use of sweetness positive aliasing modifiers is an ideal alternative that can reduce the amount of sugar used while maintaining the original sugar taste. However, the currently available sweetness aliasing agents are synthetic compounds, while natural sweetness aliasing agents have not been reported. Studies have shown that there are potential sweetness modifiers in plants with a “Sweetback effect”. The sensory activity fractionation of the extract of the fruit of Phyllanthus emblica was performed to locate the key chemical compounds in P. emblica for sweetness and sweetness aftertaste. The chemical structures of the isolated compounds were analyzed by spectroscopic methods such as ESI-MS and NMR ( 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR). Fifteen compounds were identified, namely, 2-Furoic acid (1), quercetin (2), p-hydroxybenzaldehyde (3), methyl gallate (4), ethyl 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoate (5), syringic acid, (6), gallic acid (7), vanillin (8), protocatechuic acid (9), myricetin (10), kaempferol (11), trans-cinnamic acid (12), naringenin (13), oleanolic acid (14), and rutin (15). Sensory analysis of these chemical components showed that 11 of them (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15) were compounds with a sweet taste and the other four (7, 9, 10, 11) were compounds with a sweet aftertaste. Experiments on the sweetness regulating properties of sucrose revealed that the sweet aftertaste component in P. emblica has sweetness inverse variant regulator properties and naringenin has sweetness forward variant regulator properties.
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FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY
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2025
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Junrong Li,Shanli Zhu,Fangxiong Shi
Non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) are widespread in the food industry, but their effects on reproductive endocrine function remain inadequately characterized within the current scientific literature. This study investigated NNS impacts on hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (HPO) axis function in guinea pigs. The results showed that the NNS groups exhibited significantly lower serum levels of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) compared to controls, with rebaudioside A (RA) showing the lowest GnRH. Conversely, luteinizing hormone (LH) concentrations were significantly elevated in NNS groups. The RA group exhibited increased testosterone (T) levels, and all experimental groups showed more SS follicular cysts. T1R2 protein expression was highest in the sucralose (TGS) group, while gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor (GnRHR) expression decreased significantly in NNS groups, particularly with RA. Luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) protein expression increased significantly in NNS groups, with no changes in follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) or T1R3 expression. Therefore, NNS supplementation affects HPO axis function in guinea pigs, as evidenced by decreased serum GnRH and FSH levels, increased LH content, inhibited GnRHR protein expression, and promoted LHR protein expression. The observed upregulation of T1R2 protein expression in the TGS group suggests a potential link between sweet taste receptor activation and reproductive hormone regulation.
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npj Science of Food
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2024
·Vol. 8
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·1-7
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Cai Shuangfeng,Xie Ningning,Zheng Ling,Li Quan,Zhang Siyu,Huang Qinghua,Luo Wei,Wu Mei,Wang Yidan,Du Yilun,Deng Shao-ping,Cai Lei
Sweet taste receptors found in oral and extra oral tissues play important roles in the regulation of many physiological functions. Studies have shown that urine volume increases during the lifetime exposure to artificial sweeteners. However, the detailed molecular mechanism and the general effects of different artificial sweeteners exposure on urine volume remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the relationship between urinary excretion and the sweet taste receptor expression in mice after three artificial sweeteners exposure in a higher or lower concentration via animal behavioral studies, western blotting, and real-time quantitative PCR experiment in rodent model. Our results showed that high dose of acesulfame potassium and saccharin can significantly enhance the urine output and there was a positive correlation between K + and urination volume. The acesulfame potassium administration assay of T1R3 knockout mice showed that artificial sweeteners may affect the urine output directly through the sweet taste signaling pathway. The expression of T1R3 encoding gene can be up-regulated specifically in bladder but not in kidney or other organs we tested. Through our study, the sweet taste receptors, distributing in many tissues as bladder, were indicated to function in the enhanced urine output. Different effects of long-term exposure to the three artificial sweeteners were shown and acesulfame potassium increased urine output even at a very low concentration.
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Biology-Basel
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2021
·Vol. 10
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Ferry Saputra,Yu-Heng Lai,Rey Arturo T. Fernandez,Allan Patrick G. Macabeo,Hong-Thih Lai,Jong-Chin Huang,Chung-Der Hsiao
Simple SummaryThe usage of artificial sweetener has been increased from year to year as the result of pursuing healthy lifestyle. However, ironically, several studies suggest that the consumption of artificial sweeteners cause sugar-related adverse effects (e.g., obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease). In this study, we explore the potential cardiovascular adverse effect of several artificial sweeteners using zebrafish as animal model. We found that artificial sweetener at the highest concentration found in nature only slightly alter the cardiovascular performance of zebrafish larvae. Furthermore, no alteration of cardiac performance showed after longer incubation which support the safety of artificial sweeteners.AbstractArtificial sweeteners are widely used food ingredients in beverages and drinks to lower calorie intake which in turn helps prevent lifestyle diseases such as obesity. However, as their popularity has increased, the release of artificial sweetener to the aquatic environment has also increased at a tremendous rate. Thus, our study aims to systematically explore the potential cardiovascular physiology alterations caused by eight commercial artificial sweeteners, including acesulfame-K, alitame, aspartame, sodium cyclamate, dulcin, neotame, saccharine and sucralose, at the highest environmentally relevant concentration on cardiovascular performance using zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model system. Embryonic zebrafish were exposed to the eight artificial sweeteners at 100 ppb and their cardiovascular performance (heart rate, ejection fraction, fractional shortening, stroke volume, cardiac output, heartbeat variability, and blood flow velocity) was measured and compared. Overall, our finding supports the safety of artificial sweetener exposure. However, several finding like a significant increase in the heart rate and heart rate variability after incubation in several artificial sweeteners are noteworthy. Biomarker testing also revealed that saccharine significantly increase the dopamine level in zebrafish larvae, which is might be the reason for the cardiac physiology changes observed after saccharine exposure.Keywords:artificial sweeteners;zebrafish;cardiac performance
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LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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Fang Wei,Liyong Luo,Liang Zeng
Camellia nanchuanica gained attention for having original tea tree characteristics and producing black tea with appealing sweetness . To better study the sweet taste of Camellia nanchuanica black tea, 30 kinds of Camellia nanchuanica black tea (NCBT) samples were classified into three types (high, middle and low sweetness) according to the differences in sweetness. A total of 844 metabolites were detected in NCBT; among them, there were 155 differential metabolites. Four differential metabolites (phloridzin, dulcitol, l -alanine, and sucrose) positively correlated with sweetness and showed higher VIP (variable importance for the projection) values (>1), which made main contributions to the sweetness of NCBT. Phloridzin and l -alanine might be the key sweet compounds of NCBT due to higher DoT (dose-over-threshold) values. Addition experiments further verified that phloridzin was the key sweet taste compound because phloridzin significantly increased the sweet taste of low sweetness samples. Notably, although NCBT24, 26, and 28 belonged to high sweetness samples, phloridzin content was lower. Based on the interactions of binary mixture, hyper-addition effects of phloridzin, dulcitol, l -alanine, and sucrose existed in NCBT24, 26 and 28.
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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2021
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Guangxi Han,Xiang Li,Gaopan Dong,Ling Zhang,Jianxiang Gao,Minyong Li,Lupei Du
Artificial sweeteners (ASs) have generally been applied as food additives to improve the taste of sweetness. Thus, their potential toxic effects have received extensive attention. Saccharin (SAC), discovered more than a century ago, has been used as the first noncaloric AS in foods and beverages for over 100 years. Although the toxicological effects such as carcinogenicity of SAC have been controversial for a long time, there is a paucity of knowledge covering its potential behavioral toxicity and neurotoxicity. Methodologically, in current research, adult zebrafish neurobehavioral phenotypic screening approaches were introduced to systematically delineate the potential behavioral and neural toxicity of SAC by phenotyping the comprehensive neuro-behavioral profiles of adult zebrafish, which were chronically (2 months) subject to SAC (0, 1, 10, and 50 mg/L) exposure. Subsequently, a cohort of standard neurobehavioral tests including the light/dark preference (LDP) test, novel tank diving (NTD) test, novel object recognition (NOR) test, social interaction test (SIT), color-associated learning and memory test, and conditional place preference test were applied to delineate the general adverse effect of SAC. Specifically, in a concentration-dependent manner, SAC significantly increased the preference toward the dark side in the LDP test, inhibited exploratory behavior to the top arena in the NTD test, dampened the motivation to explore the novel object in the NOR test, weakened social preference in the SIT, and interfered in the color-based associative learning and memory ability. For example, in the LDP test, SAC remarkably increased the swimming distance of zebrafish in the dark part from 222 ± 34.6 (control group) to 675 ± 35.0 (50 mg/L group). Finally, the quantity of certain key neurotransmitters was further measured to determine the alteration induced by SAC on the brain chemistry. In total, the current research would provide a versatile neurobehavioral phenomics-based strategy to phenotypically screen the neurotoxicity of food additives at the overall animal level and provide a reference for further neurotoxicity exploration at the tissue and molecular level.
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Environmental Science-Advances
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2023
·Vol. 2
·期 6
·837-847
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Hussain Ijaz,Jin-Xin Zi,Si-Si Liu,Qi-Si Cai,Sheng-Ming Cheng,Zong-Xi Zhao,Guang-Guo Ying,Andy J. Sweetman,Chang-Er Chen
The extensive use of artificial sweeteners (ASs) has raised concerns regarding their presence, fate, and detrimental effects in water resources. It is thus of great interest for researchers and regulators to acquire a sensitive, robust, and practical sampling technique for monitoring ASs. In the present study, an effective and established passive sampling method based on the diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) technique was proposed to measure ASs in water. A mixed binding gel of WAX-XDA1 (3 : 1, w/w) was used for the first time in DGT. The selected mixed binding gel exhibited strong and rapid adsorption of ASs and its total binding capacity was over 20.6 μg per disc. 1% (v/v) ammonium hydroxide-methanol was demonstrated to be an excellent elution solvent for ASs with the elution efficiencies being 80.2–104.9%. The linear accumulation of ASs by WAX-XDA1-DGT matched well with the theoretical values, indicating that the current configuration performs in accordance with the DGT principle. The assembled WAX-XDA1-DGT sampler possessed a good tolerance to a wide range of pH (4–8), ion strength (0–0.5 M), and dissolved organic matter (0–10 mg L−1). In wastewater, comparable or lower DGT-measured concentrations for the ASs were observed compared to the spot sampling results. To the best of our knowledge, no studies have yet been conducted to in situ monitor ASs by using the DGT-based method. This study demonstrates the robustness and reliability of WAX-XDA1-DGT for measuring ASs under a wide range of freshwater circumstances in aquatic environments.
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2024
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Jing Ye,Minzhi Fan,Xiaoyu Zhang,Qi Liang,Yunshan Zhang,Xiaoyu Zhao,Cheng-Te Lin,Diming Zhang
Taste sensor, a useful tool which could detect and identify thousands of different chemical substances in liquid environments, has attracted continuous concern from beverage and foodstuff industry and its consumers. Although many taste sensing methods have been extensively developed, the assessment of tastant content remains challenging due to the limitations of sensor selectivity and sensitivity. Here we present a novel biomimetic electrochemical taste-biosensor based on bioactive sensing elements and immune amplification with nanomaterials carrier to address above concerns, while taking sweet taste perception as a model. The proposed biosensor based on ligand binding domain (T1R2 VFT) of human sweet taste receptor protein showed human mimicking character and initiated the application of immune recognition in gustation biosensor, which can precisely and sensitively distinguish sweet substances against other related gustation substances with detection limit of 5.1 pM, far less than that of taste sensors without immune amplification whose detection limit was 0.48 nM. The performance test demonstrated the biosensor has the capacity of monitoring the response of sweet substances in real food environments, which is crucial in practical. This biomimetic electrochemical taste-biosensor can work as a new screening platform for newly developed tastants and disclose sweet perception mechanism.
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生物传感器
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电化学
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POULTRY SCIENCE
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2020
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Jingle Jiang,Siyi Liu,Tuniyaz Jamal,Tengxin Ding,Lina Qi,Zengpeng Lv,Debing Yu,Fangxiong Shi
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary 3 kinds of sweeteners supplementation on growth performance, serum biochemicals, and jejunal physiological functions of broiler chickens for 21 D. A total of one hundred ninety-two 1-day-old male Ross 308 broiler chicks were randomly divided into 4 treatments with 6 replicates for each treatment. The treatments were basal diet ( CON ), a basal diet supplemented with 250 mg/kg stevioside ( STE ), a basal diet supplemented with 100 mg/kg sucralose ( SUC ), and a basal diet supplemented with 600 mg/kg saccharin sodium ( SAC ). All birds were housed in 3-level battery cages. The results showed that dietary STE supplementation increased ( P < 0.05) growth performance, serum total protein, serum albumin, and jejunal antioxidant capacity of broiler chickens. Both SUC and SAC supplementation decreased ( P < 0.05) serum total protein and albumin. Dietary SAC supplementation impaired the intestinal integrity, permeability, and mucus layer of the jejunum in broiler chickens. In addition, SAC supplementation elevated ( P < 0.05) the transcription expression level of jejunal bitter taste receptors and induced excessive jejunal apoptosis. Our data suggest that STE could be potentially applied as a growth-promoting and antioxidant feed additive in broiler chickens. Whereas, dietary supplementation with high level SAC has side-effects on the jejunal physiological functions of broiler chickens.
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Journal of Advanced Research
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2025
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Yuming Wei,Ya-Ya Yu,Yuan-Chao Li,Xiao-Yu Zhong,Chun Zou,Jingming Ning,Wen-Jiang Dong,Kegang Wu,Yong-Quan Xu
Introduction Tea ( Camellia sinensis ) is globally consumed for its pleasant flavor, with sweetness being a key factor in evaluating tea quality. While taste compounds contribute to this sweetness, aroma also plays a significant role, but its contribution is not well understood in tea infusion. Objectives This study aimed to identify aroma compounds that enhance sweetness in tea infusion using a sensomics approach, and explore their synergistic effects through molecular docking. Results The aroma increased the sweetness of the tea infusion by more than 24.0 %. Eighteen aroma-active compounds linked to sweetness were identified, among which ( E )- β -damascenone (apple-like), linalool (citrus-like), geraniol (citrus-like), dimethyl sulfide (corn-like), ( E,E )-2,4-heptadienal (floral), ( E,Z )-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber-like), ( E )-linalool oxide (furanoid) (floral), dihydroactinidiolide (fruity), γ -nonalactone (coconut-like), and ( E )- β -ionone (floral) had higher sweetness similarity and significantly increased the sweet intensity of sucrose ( p < 0.05). They likely enhance sweetness by reducing the binding energy of sucrose to sweet taste receptors, forming new hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions. Conclusion This study provides new insights into the role of aroma compounds in tea sweetness and suggests a potential mechanism for their sweetening effect. These compounds could be used as flavour enhancers or additives to improve the sweetness of tea beverages.
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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
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2018
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Hongmei Zhang,Shixin Sun,Yanqing Wang,Zhenghao Fei,Jian Cao
In this work, the interactions between bovine serum albumin (BSA) and five sweeteners including aspartame (APM), acesulfame (AK), sucralose (TGS), sodium cyclamate (SC), and rebaudioside-A (REB-A) have been studied by multispectroscopic techniques, and molecular simulation in order to provide much useful information for the application of new and safer artificial sweeteners. Fluorescence quenching assays indicated that the formation of complexes between sweeteners and BSA mainly induced the fluorescence quenching of protein and the binding site number were about 1 indicting that there is one mainly binding site of APM, AK, TGS, SC, or REB-A in domain of BSA with relatively weak interactions. Molecular modeling results indicated that hydrogen bonding interactions were the mainly binding forces of sweeteners with BSA. Circular dichroism spectra indicated that APM and REB-A obviously induced the secondary structure changes of BSA. The presence of APM increased the fraction of α–Helix of BSA from 65.4% to 73.8%, while the presence of REB-A resulted in decreasing the fraction of α–helix of BSA from 65.4% to 51.2%. The melting temperature studies showed that these five sweeteners except REB-A act as stabilizers to increase the thermal stability of BSA during the thermal denaturation process. In addition, AK, TGS, and SC obviously increased the esterase-like activity of BSA, and such loss of activity of BSA induced by APM and REB-A.
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
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2023
·Vol. 34
·期 17
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IF 2.8
Liu Ji,Du Haiying,Jiang Yuqiu,Zhang Lanying,Ma Yanqi,Fu Bingjie,Hu Yao,Kang Heng
Artificial sweetener needs to control the maximum dosage, such as aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin sodium, and sucralose, are mainly used in fruits, jams, beverages, desserts, and dairy products. In this research, a novel label-free fluorescent sensor based on carbon quantum dots (CQDs) were prepared by a one-step hydrothermal method using Eupatorium odoratum L . , as a highly sensitive “turn-on”-type fluorescent probe for the detection of artificial sweetener. They exhibit photoluminous emission at 444 nm under 370 nm excitation, with a quantum yield of 20.36%. Under optimal conditions, the standard curve of aspartame, neotame, and sucralose had good linearity in the concentration range of 0–750 µmol/L, 0–400 µmol/L, and 100–800 µmol/L, respectively, and the linear correlation coefficients were 0.9913, 0.9978, and 0.9974. The CQDs were also shown to selectively react with aspartame, neotame, and sucralose, leading to fluorescence enhancing effect, and low limits of detection were 4.2383 µmol/L, 6.8834 µmol/L, and 7.6576 µmol/L, respectively, which were much lower than the limits of detection for aspartame (1.0194–33.9789 mmol/L), neotame (26.4229–792.6861 µmol/L), and sucralose (0.3772–12.5745 mmol/L) in various foodstuffs as stipulated in GB 2760-2014. The results indicated our developed sensor based on E. odoratum L . CQDs has great application prospects for artificial sweeteners detection.
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