A review of the evidence supporting the taste of non-esterified fatty acids in humans

CA Running, RD Mattes - Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 2016 - Springer
… protein in taste cell tissue of rodents [37–39]. If this is true for humans as well, and if CD36
is indeed a receptor for oleogustus, then exposure to fat could modulate oleogustus sensation, …

[HTML][HTML] New evidence for fat as a primary taste quality

D Gaillard, SC Kinnamon - Acta physiologica (Oxford, England), 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
taste of fat or “oleogustus” has been suggested as a sixth basic taste modality, but the
qualification of taste bud-mediated fat … the existence of a unique taste for fat, and Yasumatsu and …

Taste responses to linoleic acid: a crowdsourced population study

…, Genetics of Taste Lab Citizen Scientists - Chemical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… objective was to estimate the heritability of fat taste (oleogustus). A pedigree analysis was
… the fat taste intensity of graded concentrations of linoleic acid (LA) embedded in taste strips. …

Fat taste signal transduction and its possible negative modulator components

D Shanmugamprema, K Muthuswamy… - Progress in Lipid …, 2020 - Elsevier
… In this review, recent developments in the field of oleogustus and its … for fat taste - “Oleogustus
where the Latin root word “oleo” means oily or fatty and the word “gustus” implies taste. …

Fat sensation: Fatty acid taste and olfaction sensitivity and the link with disinhibited eating behaviour

S Kindleysides, KL Beck, DCI Walsh, L Henderson… - Nutrients, 2017 - mdpi.com
… a nose clip for the taste evaluation only. Prior to sensory testing, a short training procedure
was conducted to familiarise each participant with the unique taste of the oleic acid solution (…

Perceived intensity and palatability of fatty culinary preparations is associated with individual fatty acid detection threshold and the fatty acid profile of oils used as …

E Tarragon, P Cases Ceano-Vivas… - Chemical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
oleogustus was recently proposed to describe a sixth basic taste that could guide preference
for fatty … However, experimental data on food preference based on fatty acid (FA) content is …

Taste, teleology and macronutrient intake

RD Mattes - Current Opinion in Physiology, 2021 - Elsevier
… Umami reportedly assists with meeting essential amino acid requirements while fat taste (oleogustus)
helps to satisfy essential fatty acid and energy requirements. We challenge this …

Comparisons of fatty acid taste detection thresholds in people who are lean vs. overweight or obese: a systematic review and meta-analysis

RM Tucker, KA Kaiser, MA Parman, BJ George… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… The present meta-analysis reveals no significant association between oleogustus and BMI.
The literature is currently comprised of a limited number of controlled studies with very small …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of fat taste perception: Association with diet and obesity

D Liu, N Archer, K Duesing, G Hannan, R Keast - Progress in lipid research, 2016 - Elsevier
taste and obesity by examining the evidence for gustatory mechanisms of fatty acid
chemoreception (fat taste… reported associations between fat taste threshold, weight gain and …

Chemosensory Aspects in Obesity: Rethinking the Role of Sweet and Fat Taste

RM Armitage, V Iatridi, MR Yeomans - Smell, Taste, Eat: The Role of the …, 2024 - Springer
… sensory experience that could not be fully explained by the other tastants, providing the
clearest evidence to date for a unique fatty taste, a phenomenon the authors called “oleogustus”. …