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 …

Background Legislation aimed at reducing sugar intake assumes that sweet-liking drives
overconsumption. However, evidence that a greater liking for sweet taste is associated with …

Taste hedonics is a well-documented driver of food consumption. The role of sweetness in
directing ingestive behavior is largely rooted in biology. One can then intuit that individual …

Introduction: While sweet taste perception is a potential determinant of feeding behavior in
obesity, the supporting evidence is inconsistent and is typically associated with …

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 …

Variation in ability to detect, recognize, and perceive sweetness may influence food
consumption, and eventually chronic nutrition-related conditions such as overweight and …

Factors associated with sweetness preference are multi-faceted and incredibly complex. A
scoping review was undertaken to identify determinants of sweetness preference in humans …

Two distinct patterns of sweet taste liking have been described: one showing a peak liking
response in the mid-range of sucrose concentrations and the other showing a monotonic …

Background: Various studies have shown that sensory liking influences dietary behavior and
that individual characteristics are related to food intake and weight status, but little is known …