“…Although astringency can be desirable and even expected in some instances, for example in red wine, high levels of astringency can lead to an unpleasant feeling and ultimately low consumer acceptance of the food product. Polyphenols (Soares, Brandão, Mateus, & De Freitas, ), multivalent cations (Lim & Lawless, ), positively charged proteins and polysaccharides (Luck, Vårum, & Foegeding, ; Vardhanabhuti, Kelly, Luck, Drake, & Foegeding, ) can elicit an astringent sensation. At the molecular level, the binding and precipitation of salivary proteins with astringent compounds is thought to form the basis for astringency, although the exact molecular mechanism and how it relates to the sensory perception is still unclear and is thought to vary with the nature of the astringent (Gibbins & Carpenter, ; Lee, Ismail, & Vickers, ; Poncet‐Legrand et al, ).…”