METHOD FOR SCREENING COMPOUND THAT ENHANCES CARBONATION FEELING, CARBONATION FEELING ENHANCER, AND DRINKS AND FOODS CONTAINING CARBONATION FEELING ENHANCER

• Main Authors: SHOJI YASUTAKA, ASAI YASUTAKA, MIYAZAWA TOSHIO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 05.09.2016
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENZYMOLOGY; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; TESTING; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; VINEGAR; WINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for screening a compound that enhances carbonation feeling, a carbonation feeling enhancer, and drinks and foods in which carbonation feeling is enhanced by a carbonation feeling enhancer.SOLUTION: There is provided a screening method a compound that enhances carbonation feeling includes: bringing a compound to be tested into contact with a trigeminal nerve or a cell derived from the trigeminal nerve in carbonic water; detecting physiological response of the trigeminal nerve or the cell derived from the trigeminal nerve which is generated by the contact; and selecting a compound that enhances carbonation feeling by using the fact that the intensity of physiological response when a compound to be tested exists is increased higher than the intensity of physiological response when a compound to be tested does not exist as an indicator. There are also provided a screening method, a carbonation feeling enhancer, and drinks and foods in which carbonation feeling is enhanced by a carbonation feeling enhancer.SELECTED DRAWING: None 【課題】本発明は、炭酸感を増強させる化合物をスクリーニングする方法および炭酸感増強剤並びに炭酸感増強剤により炭酸感を増強した飲食品を提供する。【解決手段】炭酸感を増強する化合物のスクリーニング方法であって、被検化合物を炭酸水中で三叉神経または三叉神経由来の細胞と接触させることと、上記接触により発生する三叉神経または三叉神経由来の細胞の生理学的応答を検出することと、被検化合物存在時の生理学的応答の強度が、被検化合物非存在時の生理学的応答の強度よりも高まることを指標として炭酸感を増強する化合物を選択することとを含む、スクリーニング方法および炭酸感増強剤並びに炭酸感増強剤により炭酸感を増強した飲食品。【選択図】なし