Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0877352

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0877352

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Smells that 'taste': Flavour perception and its consequences. The experience of flavour during eating and drinking has surprising social and economic ramifications. Our preference for sweet and fatty food has contributed to progressive increases in body mass over the last twenty years. Many experts now consider this to be a major public health crisis in the making. Economically, Australia is heavily dependent upon food exports, both in terms of primary production and value added processed food. Understanding the psychology of flavour, which is central to this project, should assist the development of non-fattening additives that appreciably alter fat and sweetness perception, creating new food products that are healthy, preferred and potential export earners.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 31-12-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $232,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Nutrition | Processed food products and beverages not elsewhere classified

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Nutrition | Processed food products and beverages not elsewhere classified | Psychology | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance

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