Liking for the sweetness of sugars and consumption of high fat-sugar diets are hot topics in
the study of human ingestive behaviour, where controlling excess sugar and saturated fat …

We sense fat by its texture and smell, but it is still unknown whether we also taste fat despite
evidence of both candidate receptors and distinct fat taste sensations. One major reason fat …

Taste hedonics drive food choices, and food choices affect weight maintenance. Despite
this, the idea that hyper-palatability of sweet foods is linked to obesity development has …

Building on a series of recent studies that challenge the universality of sweet liking, here we
review the evidence for multiple sweet-liking phenotypes which strongly suggest, humans …

Introduction Obesity is rapidly becoming one of the most important medical issues of our
time. The effects of obesity are broad and complex. As obesity is fundamentally associated …

Taste is the chemical sense responsible for the detection of non-volatile chemicals in
potential foods. For fat to be considered as one of the taste primaries in humans, certain …

Given the role of taste hedonics in directing ingestive behaviour, the abundance of highly
palatable foods that characterises the modern food environment may contribute to the high …

Phenotypic differences in sweet liking are well known, but how they relate to actual eating
habits and liking for other taste qualities remains unclear. In Experiment One (222 …

Sense of taste informs the body about the quality of ingested foods. Five sub-modalities
allowing the perception of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami stimuli are classically …

Public health recommendations over the past two decades have encouraged moderation of
fat consumption because of its contribution to various chronic diseases. Adoption of this …