Center aims for healthier, tastier foods

摘要

WHAT if commercially made whole-wheat bread tasted just as good as its refined-wheat counterpart? What if you could enjoy the guilty pleasure of eating a bag of potato chips with a third less sodium but all the flavor?These are the types of questions being tackled by the Flavor Research & Education Center that is newly arrived to The Ohio State University."Dietary guidelines provide a basis to promote a healthy lifestyle, but they are not well followed. People tend to select foods they enjoy, that they can afford and that are convenient," said Devin Peterson, director of the flavor center and professor in the Ohio State department of food science and technology. Both the center and department are part of the university's College of Food, Agricultural & Environmental Sciences.