This chapter takes a developmental approach in understanding sweet taste, presenting
scientific evidence for the strong hedonic appeal of sweet taste and why children are …

Pleasure from foods can stimulate “non-homoeostatic” eating, and might therefore also
potentially contribute toward obesity. However, obesity is not reliably associated with …

Background Food in general, and fatty foods in particular, have obtained intrinsic reward
value throughout evolution. This reward value results from an interaction between …

Background The basic senses of humans, including taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch,
play integral roles in perceiving food. Each sense provides unique sensory information that …

A half-century ago, Fischer and colleagues found correlations between food preference and
genetic markers of taste [6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP), quinine]. Recently, a number of …

This report summarises a workshop convened by ILSI Europe on 3 and 4 April 2017 to
discuss the issue of dietary sweetness. The objectives were to understand the roles of …

Differences in food consumption among body-weight statuses (eg, higher fruit intake linked
with lower body mass index (BMI) and energy-dense products with higher BMI) has raised …

Dietary and body fat are essential for life. Fatty acids modulate fat detection, ingestion,
digestion, absorption and elimination. Though direct effects occur throughout the body …

Previous attempts to uncover a relation between taste processing and weight status have
yielded inconclusive results leaving it unclear whether lean and obese individuals process …