Taste everyone in terms of food is always different despite eating the same food. There is a feel good but there is also a feeling normal. It turned out delicious food at least not from the food but a decisive saliva.
In spit (saliva) is an enzyme that is responsible to assess whether the food is good or not. The perception of each person whether foods such as soft texture, sandy or crunchy it is on salivary amylase.
Recent research from the Monell Center reported that the perception of each person against the texture of the starch consumed was formed by the variability of oral enzyme activity, known as salivary amylase.
In a study reported in the journal PLoS ONE reveals changes in consistency of starch in the mouth is directly related to salivary amylase activity.
Differences in perceptions of food starch flavor is what affects a person to a food craze. This is because people just want to eat foods you like or have a texture that fits with his tongue.
Starch foods such as wheat, potatoes, corn and rice is the main component of the food consumed by most people, as well as a source of calories by 40-60 percent.
Amylase enzyme released in saliva helps break down starch into simple sugar molecules, so that these molecules will be absorbed into the bloodstream that can affect blood glucose levels.
In the study also showed that the enzyme activity of salivary amylase is also influenced by genetic factors.
"Overall this means that foods with different starch content will be perceived very differently by someone. In addition, it also depends on how many salivary amylase they produce," said Paul AS Breslin, as the sensory geneticist, as quoted by the ScienceDaily, Saturday (16/10/2010).
Previous studies have shown that a person can have 2-15 copies of AMY1, the gene coding for salivary amylase. Could therefore everyone has a different gene.
Further study will be conducted to determine the relationship between AMY1 gene copy number with a liking for certain foods containing starch.
Saliva affect whether or not the food delicious.
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