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Designing Silk-silk Protein Alloy Materials for Biomedical Applications
Published on: August 13, 2014
Design and testing of foods differing in protein to energy ratios
Alison K Gosby1, Suzanne Soares-Wynter, Claudia Campbell
1School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney, Rm 322, Heydon Laurence Building, A08, Sydney, NSW, Australia. alison.gosby@usyd.edu.au
Abstract:
Our aim was to design a selection of foods with differing proportions of protein but equal palatability in two settings, Sydney Australia and Kingston Jamaica. The foods were manipulated to contain 10, 15 or 25% E as protein with reciprocal changes in carbohydrate to 60, 55 or 45% E and dietary fat was kept constant at 30%. Naïve participants did not identify a difference in protein between the versions. On average, the versions were rated equal in pleasantness (Sydney-10%: 44±2, 15%: 49±2 and 25%: 49±2 Kingston-10%: 41±3, 15%: 41±3 and 25%: 37±3).
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