TasteGAGE is Embedded into MAMAY Digitizer | 1-Mar-2026

Yuval Klein
3 days ago
2 min read

Updated: 4 hours ago

TasteGAGE will shout down on 1-Mar-2026.

TasteGAGE.com is closing as we transition fully to MAMAY Digitizer, a platform that now delivers everything TasteGAGE was created to explore - and far more.

TasteGAGE served as an important first step, helping us understand, test, and shape the ideas that ultimately became MAMAY Digitizer. With the new platform now capable of handling every feature and expanding beyond the original vision, it’s time to consolidate our efforts and focus on what truly moves us forward.

Thank you for being part of the journey. The next chapter continues at MAMAY Digitizer.

To remember here the intro & some screen captures.

Yu Klein | Founder & CEO

Taste GAGE Introduction

DIGITIZATION HAS DISRUPTED INDUSTRY AFTER INDUSTRY, FROM PHOTOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC DESIGN TO COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY. DIGITIZING HAS REVOLUTIONIZED HOW PEOPLE OPERATE, SAVING UNIMAGINABLE TIME AND MONEY WHILE CREATING EXCITING NOVEL OPPORTUNITIES. MAMAY IS DISRUPTING THE FOOD & BEVERAGE DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION INDUSTRY BY DIGITIZING TASTE, ODOR, AND FEEL. WITH THE COUNTLESS TASTE INTERACTIONS OCCURRING EACH MOMENT, THE APPLICATIONS ARE ENDLESS AND INVALUABLE. WELCOME TO THE FOOD DIGITIZATION REVOLUTION.

Developing each new product in the F&B industry, a market hungry for constant novelty, can take months to years and cost tens of thousands to millions of dollars. Therefore, the holy grail of acceleration in this industry is the development of accurate digital simulations of products. With reliable simulations, manufacturers would save enormous, risky investments in full product development before realizing costly changes are necessary. Using simulation, we could make well-informed decisions at each step of the development process, improving cost efficiency up to four-fold.

That’s why we’ve developed Taste GAGE: the world’s first universal Taste, Odor & Feel simulator for foods and beverages. Using desktop software, the GAGE simulator analyzes a product's ingredients' chemical and physical properties at the molecular level, combining that data with their taste and odor attributes. The unit of calculation is a proprietary metric we’ve named val®, a unit we measure along an interval scale. Each product’s unique combination of val® comprises its distinct “Flower of Taste”, enabling comparison and relativity. This first-ever uniform metric for analyzing and communicating the multi-faceted experience of each F&B product will allow a wide range of human and machine-based applications, throughout F&B development and commercialization.

Definitions

GAGE* - The sensory impact of a set of compounds, based on their mass and concentration.
Val® - Sensation impact unit (as value).

*GAGE - less common spelling of GAUGE.

1a: a measurement (as of linear dimension) according to some standard or system.

Merriam Webster

Taste GAGE

A desktop App and API, which quantifies the impact of any sensory sense (val®), based on any combination and concentration of any known compound.

Taste GAGE covers

Taste (such as sweetness, saltiness, etc. - Taste receptors)
Odor (any expressed odor - Smell receptors)
Functional Taste (such as spiciness, cooling, etc. - Trigeminal nerve)
Feel, like mouthfeel, texture (such as crunchiness, color, sound, temperature, and any other sense related to - vision, sound, touch).