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What You Don't Know About Flavor Enhancers Can Harm You
September 01, 2011 | 81,781 views  flavor enhancers can harm
youSenomyx is a high tech research and development business that
is "dedicated to finding new flavors to reduce sugars and reduce
salt." But their focus is not on whole, organic fruits and
vegetables, or grass-pastured meats, dairy and eggs. Senomyx
develops patented flavor enhancers by using "proprietary taste
receptor-based assay systems."  That's a testing system that
provides scientists with biochemical responses and electronic
readouts when a flavor ingredient interacts with their patented
receptor, letting researchers know whether or not their flavor
enhancer is effective. The receptors are made from HEK293 -- HEK
stands for Human Embryonic Kidney cells, with 293 denoting that
the HEK was from the 293rd experiment. HEK293 originally came
from a healthy, electively aborted baby whose cells were then
harvested and cloned.  Accor