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Uchida T. Taste Sensor Assessment of Bitterness in Medicines: Overview and Recent Topics. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 24:4799. [PMID: 39123846 PMCID: PMC11314865 DOI: 10.3390/s24154799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2024] [Revised: 06/27/2024] [Accepted: 07/22/2024] [Indexed: 08/12/2024]
Abstract
In recent decades, taste sensors have been increasingly utilized to assess the taste of oral medicines, particularly focusing on bitterness, a major obstacle to patient acceptance and adherence. This objective and safe method holds promise for enhancing the development of patient-friendly medicines in pharmaceutical companies. This review article introduces its application in measuring the intensity of bitterness in medicine, confirming the achievement of taste masking, distinguishing taste differences between branded and generic medicines, and identifying substances to suppress bitterness in target medicines. Another application of the sensor is to predict a significant increase in bitterness when medicine is taken with certain foods/beverages or concomitant medication. Additionally, to verify the sensor's predictability, a significant correlation has been demonstrated between the output of a bitter-sensitive sensor designed for drug bitterness (BT0) and the bitterness responses of the human taste receptor hT2R14 from BitterDB (huji.ac.il). As a recent advancement, a novel taste sensor equipped with lipid/polymer membranes modified by 3-Br-2,6-dihydroxybenzoic acid (2,6-DHBA), based on the concept of allostery, is introduced. This sensor successfully predicts the bitterness of non-charged pharmaceuticals with xanthine skeletons, such as caffeine or related compounds. Finally, the future prospects of taste sensors are discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Takahiro Uchida
- Food and Health Innovation Center, Nakamura Gakuen University, 5-7-1, Befu, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0198, Japan;
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Mukogawa Women’s University, 11-68, Koshien 9-Bancho, Nishinomiya 663-8179, Japan
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Jayasundar R, Ghatak S, Kumar D, Singh A, Bhosle P. No ambiguity: Chemosensory-based ayurvedic classification of medicinal plants can be fingerprinted using E-tongue coupled with multivariate statistical analysis. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13:1025591. [DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1025591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background: Ayurveda, the indigenous medical system of India, has chemosensory property (rasa) as one of its major pharmacological metric. Medicinal plants have been classified in Ayurveda under six rasas/tastes—sweet, sour, saline, pungent, bitter and astringent. This study has explored for the first time, the use of Electronic tongue for studies of rasa-based classification of medicinal plants.Methods: Seventy-eight medicinal plants, belonging to five taste categories (sweet, sour, pungent, bitter, astringent) were studied along with the reference taste standards (citric acid, hydrochloric acid, caffeine, quinine, L-alanine, glycine, β-glucose, sucrose, D-galactose, cellobiose, arabinose, maltose, mannose, lactose, xylose). The studies were carried out with the potentiometry-based Electronic tongue and the data was analysed using Principle Component Analysis, Discriminant Function Analysis, Taste Discrimination Analysis and Soft Independent Modeling of Class Analogy.Results: Chemosensory similarities were observed between taste standards and the plant samples–citric acid with sour group plants, sweet category plants with sucrose, glycine, β-glucose and D-galactose. The multivariate analyses could discriminate the sweet and sour, sweet and bitter, sweet and pungent, sour and pungent plant groups. Chemosensory category of plant (classified as unknown) could also be identified.Conclusion: This preliminary study has indicated the possibility of fingerprinting the chemosensory-based ayurvedic classification of medicinal plants using E-tongue coupled with multivariate statistical analysis.
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Pi R, Li G, Zhuang S, Yu Q, Luo Y, Tan Y, Dai R, Hong H. Effect of the Partial Substitution of Sodium Chloride on the Gel Properties and Flavor Quality of Unwashed Fish Mince Gels from Grass Carp. Foods 2022; 11:foods11040576. [PMID: 35206053 PMCID: PMC8871401 DOI: 10.3390/foods11040576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Revised: 01/26/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Excessive salt is usually required to maintain good gel properties and quality characteristics for unwashed fish mince gels (UFMG). This study aimed to investigate the effects of partial sodium chloride substitution (30%) with different substitutes (potassium chloride, disodium inosine-5′-monophosphate, basil) on the gel and flavor properties of UFMG from Ctenopharyngodon idellus. The results indicated that the texture and gel strength of NK (30% NaCl was replaced with 30% KCl) were fairly similar to that of N group (NaCl only), and the whiteness had improved significantly (p < 0.05), while the product eventually yielded a certain bitter taste. The addition of disodium inosine-5′-monophosphate (DIMP) significantly (p < 0.05) increased the hardness, chewiness, buriedness degree of tryptophan and gel strength, decreased the content of α-helix structure in the gels, while less change occurred in gel whiteness and network structure. Basil significantly (p < 0.05) reduced the buriedness degree of tryptophan, gel strength and whiteness, and deteriorated the gel structure. Nevertheless, the addition of DIMP or basil reduced the bitterness induced by KCl and improved the overall acceptability scores of gels of the N group. Moreover, there was no distinct difference in moisture content and water-holding capacity between all groups. Therefore, replacing sodium chloride in UFMG with 25% potassium chloride and 5% DIMP may be an ideal sodium salt substitution strategy.
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- Ruobing Pi
- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; (R.P.); (G.L.); (S.Z.); (Q.Y.); (Y.L.); (Y.T.); (R.D.)
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- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; (R.P.); (G.L.); (S.Z.); (Q.Y.); (Y.L.); (Y.T.); (R.D.)
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- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; (R.P.); (G.L.); (S.Z.); (Q.Y.); (Y.L.); (Y.T.); (R.D.)
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- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; (R.P.); (G.L.); (S.Z.); (Q.Y.); (Y.L.); (Y.T.); (R.D.)
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- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; (R.P.); (G.L.); (S.Z.); (Q.Y.); (Y.L.); (Y.T.); (R.D.)
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- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; (R.P.); (G.L.); (S.Z.); (Q.Y.); (Y.L.); (Y.T.); (R.D.)
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- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; (R.P.); (G.L.); (S.Z.); (Q.Y.); (Y.L.); (Y.T.); (R.D.)
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- Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; (R.P.); (G.L.); (S.Z.); (Q.Y.); (Y.L.); (Y.T.); (R.D.)
- Center of Food Colloids and Delivery for Functionality, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
- Xinghua Industrial Research Centre for Food Science and Human Health, China Agricultural University, Xinghua 225700, China
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