The development of sweet taste: From biology to hedonics

JA Mennella, NK Bobowski, DR Reed - … in Endocrine and Metabolic …, 2016 - Springer
children to overconsume all that is sweet in a modern food system replete with added sugars.
We review the power of sweet taste to blunt expressions of pain … taste preferences driven in …

Parental substance use and child reward-driven eating behaviors

JR Cummings, JC Lumeng, AL Miller, LW Hyde… - Appetite, 2020 - Elsevier
… , the association between family history of alcoholism and adult … family history of alcoholism
with sweet liking and with adult obesity. It therefore remains unknown whether family history

The role of taste in alcohol preference, consumption and risk behavior

M Thibodeau, GJ Pickering - Critical reviews in food science and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… Additionally, a preference for sweetness is likely associated with a paternal history of alcohol
use … preference for sucrose solutions in 5–12 year old children was largely driven by the …

Association of the sweet-liking phenotype and craving for alcohol with the response to naltrexone treatment in alcohol dependence: a randomized clinical trial

JC Garbutt, AB Kampov-Polevoy, LS Kalka-Juhl… - Jama …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
… trial in patients with alcohol dependence in which the SL phenotype was assessed after
completion of the trial; the investigators found that higher sweet preference was associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Sweet taste does not modulate pain perception in adult humans

ER Mooney, AJ Davies, AE Pickering - Wellcome Open Research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… 39– 41 , analgesia from hedonic drinking in adult animals is … of the volunteer group by sweet
preference to eliminate the … In children, the analgesic effect of sweet taste was restricted to …

Role of endocannabinoids on sweet taste perception, food preference, and obesity-related disorders

E Tarragon, JJ Moreno - Chemical Senses, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… given that daily, real-life food choices include most of the times … perception and preference
occur from infancy to teenage … player in modulating emotional and physical response to pain. …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of sweetness preference: a scoping review of human studies

C Venditti, K Musa-Veloso, HY Lee, T Poon, A Mak… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
… eligible for inclusion); (4) alcohol, nicotine, or a recreational drug relative to sweetness
One study showed that children had a significantly greater sweetness preference than …

Differential rearing alters taste reactivity to ethanol, sucrose, and quinine

TJ Wukitsch, EC Brase, TJ Moser, SW Kiefer… - …, 2020 - Springer
… significantly more hedonic responses to alcohol than IC rats (… on intake and preference for
sweet and bitter solutions in the … of pain/discomfort such as increased pain tolerance. This …

Hedonic drinking engages a supraspinal inhibition of thermal nociception in adult rats

AJ Davies, D Kim, J Park, JY Lee, H Vang… - Pain, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… learned preference for sucrose. Given the positive association between the preference for
sweet drinks … of sugar-sweetened beverages, particularly in young children and adolescents. …

Measuring sweet and bitter taste in children: individual variation due to age and taste genetics

JA Mennella, AA Nolden, N Bobowski - … preferences and eating behaviors, 2018 - Elsevier
Sweetness is a powerful analgesic among children and may be more effective in attenuating
pain for normal weight than for obese children… the food or drinking the beverage makes …