Table of Contents:
  • Taste and the taste of foods / James C. Boudreau, Joseph Oravec, Nga Kieu Hoang, and Thomas D. White
  • The umami taste / Shizuko Yamaguchi
  • Pungency : the stimuli and their evaluation / V.S. Govindarajan
  • Sweet and bitter compounds: structure and taste relationship / H.-D. Belitz, W. Chen, H. Jugel, R. Treleano, H. Wieser, J. Gasteiger, and M. Marsili
  • Chemistry of sweet peptides / Yasuo Ariyoshi
  • Bitterness of peptides : amino acid composition and chain length / Karl Heinz Ney
  • Taste components of potatoes / J. Solms and R. Wyler
  • The taste of fish and shellfish / Shoji Konosu
  • Flavor of browning reaction products / Ahmed Fahmy Mabrouk
  • Concluding remarks / Mitsuo Namiki.