In recent years, there has been a growing trend towards healthier and more sustainable food and beverage products, driven by concerns over obesity, chronic diseases, and environmental issues. The food and beverage industry is heavily regulated in many countries, with strict safety and quality standards in place to protect consumers. Understanding molecular mechanisms behind taste, nutrient uptake, and potential toxicity is key for developing food and beverage products.

Automated patch clamping provides the food and beverage industry with a powerful tool for developing new and more effective food and beverage products that can enhance taste, improve nutrition, and ensure safety for consumers.

With automated patch clamp, researchers gain a better understanding of the function and regulation of taste receptors in the mouth or the activity of ion channels in cells that regulate the uptake of nutrients. This knowledge can be used to develop new and more effective flavor enhancers and sweeteners that can be used in food and beverage products.

Automated patch clamp provide a fast and reliable way to test the effects of food additives on ion channels in the human body. This can help researchers assess the safety of food additives by determining whether they can interfere with ion channels involved in physiological processes, such as digestion and metabolism.

Automated patch clamp techniques can be used to screen for new targets like flavor modulators and toxins. By identifying ion channels that are involved in taste perception, researchers can develop flavor enhancers that can selectively modulate these channels to improve the taste of food and beverage products. Additionally, researchers can identify, which substances are harmful and should be avoided.