From Diet Drinks To Tasty Toothpastes
by Mid Brain on July 18, 2009 · 5 comments
Mid Brain reports:
Cosmetics and Toiletries magazine cites a tasty piece of research done by the Monell Chemical Senses Center:
Monell Chemical Senses Center announced that a scientific paradox linking artificial sweeteners with a sensory experience, in which plain water takes on a sweet taste, has guided researchers to an increased understanding of how humans detect sweet taste. As reported in Nature, scientists from Monell describe how certain artificial sweeteners, including sodium saccharin and acesulfame-K, paradoxically inhibit sweet taste at high concentrations. The researchers further reported that taste perception switches back to sweetness when these high concentrations are rinsed from the mouth with water, resulting in the aftertaste experience known as sweet water taste.
Well Beauty Brains, what does this have to do with personal care products, you ask? Well, imagine a mouthwash or toothpaste that doesn’t taste sweet when you use it, but “magically” makes anything you drink AFTER you brush your teeth taste sweet! Is it really possible? We’re not sure, but the concept of a Stealth Sweetener is intriguing.
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” As reported in Nature, scientists from Monell describe how certain artificial sweeteners, including sodium saccharin and acesulfame-K, paradoxically inhibit sweet taste at high concentrations ”
Are these concentrations a common amount, as in 2 – 3 packets per 8 oz cup? Rather than hoping for a sweet aftertaste in a mouthwash, this appears to be what I see regularly: people lose the ability to taste the sweetner and use more and more over time. The beverage doesn’t taste sweet upon drinking it as it would with sugar, but leaves a sweet lingering aftertaste, causing the drinker to crave more sweetness. I have friends who use 5 or 6 packets to sweeten a glass of tea and artificial sweetners are reportedly SWEETER than sugar.
As someone who’s allergic to artificial sweeteners I’m not so thrilled about this. I really don’t want them in anything I use as I really don’t like having to go to the hospital.
(It sucks to have this allergy cause I really want some mint flavored gum but they all are sugar free now adays which means they have artificial sweeteners in them. Grr!)
All I want is a toothpaste that doesn’t make my taste buds leap out of my mouth and run under the cabinets when I’m dumb enough to forget NOT to eat an orange right after brushing my teeth.
That’s all I want. Toothpaste that doesn’t make my hair stand on end when I brush my teeth and then eat an orange.
That would be interesting to see how this is achieved as the surfactants in toothpaste are inhibiting the taste buds that perceive sweetness.