White bread

Bitterness mechanism, 28 receptor model, 29,31/,34,35/ receptor structure, 161,162/ similarity to sweetness perception, 31/ Bread, white, use of enzyme-active soya flour, 192-198... 

Cornflakes or corn cereal Bread, white, w/o crust Margarine... 

Moreover, the bread crumb s moisture loss during seven days of storage open to the air, also did not show a consistent dramatic effect on these two tensile parameters (Chen et al. 1994) as one would expect. The same can be said about the compression parameters, which too showed little correlation with the moisture loss, which was measurable, of course. These reported findings, if indeed representative of the three tested breads (white, Canadian and whole wheat), would suggest that the initial textural changes that accompany bread staling are quite subtle and hence cannot be always manifested in the described crude mechanical parameters. An alternative explanation is that the failure to find the expected trends was mainly due to the large scatter in the experimental results that masked the true trend, if it really existed. 

Clearly, one of the most important prevention strategies is physician and patient education in this area. In addition, there has been much debate over thiamine fortification of alcoholic beverages in order to prevent Wernicke s encephalopathy in alcoholics, the most susceptible population,. In 1987, Australia s Mental Health Committee recommended fortification of all Austrahan beer and flagon wine but this was never implemented. In most developed countries, bread (white flour) is enriched with thiamine to restore what is lost from the whole wheat in the process of milling. Australia adopted this plan in 1991, using the same level of enrichment as the United States (6.4 mg thiamine hydrochloride/Kg flour). The incidence of WE in the five years after the above implementation in Australia was 40% lower (perhaps fortuitously) than in the five year period prior to bread fortification. In addition, the post-mortem diagnosis of WE in Sydney, Australia has declined from 2.1% to 1.1% (Truswell, 2000). 

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