Quantitative characterization of sucrose taste by statistical physics modeling parameters using an analogy between an experimental physicochemical isotherm of sucrose adsorption on beta-cyclodextrin and a putative biological sucrose adsorption from sucrose dose-taste response curve (psychophysics and electrophysiology)

摘要

This work represents a contribution to understanding the taste or gustatory mechanism of sucrose by using a proposed model expression established by a statistical physics treatment. Gustative and physicochemical parts are used as constituents in this work. We start with a modeling of experimental adsorption isotherms of sucrose molecules onto beta-cyclodextrin followed by a similar modeling of sweet taste dose-response curves of sucrose by a putative adsorption process of sucrose molecules onto nerve receptor sites.