Are Argentinians ready for plant-based meat alternatives? A case study on awareness and willingness for consumption.

Meat alternatives' popularity is increasing worldwide. Nevertheless, the attitudes and motivations underpinning their adoption still evolve and may differ by region. In Argentina, where meat consumption per capita is among the highest globally, the market for plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) is just beginning to develop.

The role of culture in the representation of probiotic foods.

Functional foods, and specifically probiotics, are important products present in retail worldwide. Probiotics comprise "live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, can confer a health benefit on the host". This study aimed to investigate the effect of culture on probiotic foods social representation.

Exploring food and beverage pairing from a cross-cultural projective mapping.

Culture is a well-known driver of food choices, and therefore, it could also impact food pairing preferences. Food pairing has been studied from different approaches; however, little cross-cultural research has been done. This work explored food and beverage pairing using projective mapping (PM) to create maps of food-beverage combinations.

Phenolic composition and sensory dynamic profile of chocolate samples enriched with red wine and blueberry powders.

Cabernet Sauvignon (CS) and a combination of Cabernet Sauvignon with blueberry extract (CS + B), were spray dried (using maltodextrin DE10, 13.5% w/w as a carrier) to obtain two types of phenolic-rich powders. The addition of blueberry to CS increased phenolic compounds content by 16%.

Multi-attribute temporal descriptive methods in sensory analysis applied in food science: A systematic scoping review.

Among descriptive sensory evaluation methods, temporal methods have a wide audience in food science because they make it possible to follow perception as close as possible to the moment when sensations are perceived. The aim of this work was to describe 30 years of research involving temporal methods by mapping the scientific literature using a systematic scoping review. Thus, 363 research articles found from a search in Scopus and Web of Science from 1991 to 2022 were included.

Multi-attribute temporal descriptive methods in sensory analysis applied in food science: Protocol for a scoping review.

Background: Sensory perception is a temporal phenomenon highly present in food evaluation. Over the last decades, several sensory analysis methods have been developed to determine how our processing of the stimuli changes during tasting. These methods differ in several parameters: how attributes are characterized (intensity, dominance or applicability), the number of attributes evaluated, the moment of sample characterization (simultaneously with the tasting in continuous or discrete time, retrospectively), the required panel (trained subjects or consumers), etc.

Impact of music on the dynamic perception of coffee and evoked emotions evaluated by temporal dominance of sensations (TDS) and emotions (TDE).

The aim of the present work was to study the temporal effect of music on sensory perception and on the emotional changes while drinking coffee. Two different commercial filter coffees were evaluated by a group of 48 consumers using the Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS) method. The description was performed in silence and also while listening to two different musical fragments: one with a "sweet" connotation and the other with a "bitter" one.

Influence of different storage conditions on the performance of spray-dried yogurt used as inoculum for milk fermentation.

A commercial drinkable yogurt with and without 4% of added trehalose (as cell protectant) was spray-dried obtaining a powder with low water activity (aw). Total bacterial count in the powder was between 8.48-8.

Time-intensity and reaction-time methodology applied to the dynamic perception and liking of bitterness in relation to body mass index.

There are very few studies which have considered perception temporality when relating perceived intensity and hedonic responses in relation to body mass index (BMI; kg/cm). The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between BMI with the dynamic perception and liking of bitter tasting solutions. For this purpose, two different categories of bitter products were applied: 6-n-propilthiouracil (PROP) solutions (0.

Use of Multi-Intake Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS) to Evaluate the Influence of Wine on Cheese Perception.

Unlabelled: Even if wine and cheese have long been consumed together, there is little sensory evidence on how wine can influence the perception of cheese. In this work 4 cheeses were dynamically characterized in terms of dominant sensations without and with wine consumption in between intakes. The tasting protocol was based on multi-intake temporal dominance of sensations (TDS) coupled with hedonic rating.

Eating flowers? Exploring attitudes and consumers' representation of edible flowers.

Edible flowers have gained more attention in recent years thanks to their perceived health benefits. Despite this attention, it seems that edible flowers are not popularized for consumption in South America, being considered unfamiliar for some cultures from this continent. In this context, the general goal of the present study was to investigate the three dimensions of social representation theory, the representational field, the information and the attitude of the two conditions of edible flowers: a more general "food made with flowers" and more directional product "yoghurt made with flowers", using Brazilian consumers.

Use of Multi-Intake Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS) to Evaluate the Influence of Cheese on Wine Perception.

Though the gastronomic sector recommends certain wine-cheese associations, there is little sensory evidence on how cheese influences the perception of wine. It was the aim of this study to dynamically characterize 4 wines as they would be perceived when consumed with and without cheese. The tasting protocol was based on multi-intake temporal dominance of sensations (TDS) coupled with hedonic rating.

Understanding apple consumers' expectations in terms of likes and dislikes. Use of comment analysis in a cross-cultural study.

Apple consumers' expectations in Argentina and France were studied by comment analysis of open-ended questions. In an on-line survey consumers stated: attributes which defined quality in an apple; visual, flavor and texture characteristics they liked/did not like to find in an apple. Influence of country, consumption frequency and cultivar knowledge were analyzed by contingency tables, Chi-square per cell tests and Multiple Factor Analysis.

Management of acute traumatic stress in nuclear and radiological emergencies.

In order to effectively respond to and minimize the psychological impact following disasters, such as radio-nuclear ones, it is essential to understand the mechanisms involved in such conditions and how to prevent and treat the psychological impacts, including those related to acute traumatic stress and its consequences across life span. Radio-nuclear emergencies may cause psychological traumatic stress, with its potentially significant consequences in mental health, with both short and long-term effects, which extend beyond the individuals directly affected. Ionizing radiation cannot be perceived by human senses and most people are unaware of the magnitude of its effects, which could result in feelings of helplessness and vulnerability.

Relationships of serum androgens and estrogens to prostate cancer risk: results from a prospective study in Finland.

Several lines of evidence suggest that sex hormones may be involved in the etiology of prostate cancer. We conducted a prospective nested case-control study to evaluate the relationships of serum androgens and estrogens to prostate cancer using serum collected at baseline for the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study. The 29,133 male smokers who participated in the trial were 50-69 years old at baseline.

Sexual function does not change when serum testosterone levels are pharmacologically varied within the normal male range.

Objective: To examine the relationship between serum T levels and sexual function when T levels are varied in the normal male range by pharmacological means. Two groups of healthy men were treated with a depot form of GnRH agonist leuprolide acetate (Lupron depot; TAP Pharmaceuticals, Chicago, IL) on days 1 and 31 to suppress endogenous T production and either 4 (n = 6) or 8 (n = 5) mg/d T replacement by a sustained release, long-acting T microcapsule formulation on day 1.

Outcome Measures: Sexual function was evaluated by daily logs of sexual activity and electroencephalogram-coupled nocturnal penile tumescence recording before and after 9 weeks of treatment.

An open-label dose-escalation trial of oral dehydroepiandrosterone tolerance and pharmacokinetics in patients with HIV disease.

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a naturally occurring adrenal steroid reported to have immunomodulatory and antiviral activity in cellular and animal models as well as modest in vitro antiretroviral activity against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A phase I dose-escalation study was performed to evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetics of DHEA in subjects with symptomatic HIV disease and an absolute CD4 lymphocyte count between 250 and 600 cells/microliters. Thirty-one subjects were evaluated and monitored for safety and tolerance.

Decreased serum dehydroepiandrosterone is associated with an increased progression of human immunodeficiency virus infection in men with CD4 cell counts of 200-499.

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its interconvertible sulfate derivative (DHEA-S) are human androgenic steroids that have been reported to inhibit viral expression and have been associated with a decreased risk of cancer. The relationship between serum DHEA and DHEA-S levels and subsequent progression to AIDS was investigated in a sample of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected men from the San Francisco Men's Health Study followed prospectively since 1984. Among 108 men seropositive for HIV at study entry and with CD4 lymphocyte counts of 200-499 microliters 24 months later, serum DHEA levels below the lower limit of normal (less than 180 ng/dl) at this later date were predictive of subsequent progression to AIDS (relative hazard = 2.