Snacking is a common eating habit in the modern food environment. Individual snack
choices vary substantially, with sweet versus savoury snacks linked to differential health …

Recent studies have revealed close links between human olfaction, appetite, and food
choice. However, it remains unclear whether olfactory sensitivity plays a direct role in …

Macronutrient intake and composition of diets (ie, carbohydrate, protein, and fat) can vary
substantially across individuals. Chemosensory functions are hypothesised to play a key …

Taste perception plays an undisputed role in food choice, preference, and intake. Recent
literature suggests that individual diet and taste sensitivity may have a reciprocal …

Comprehending the complexity and determinants of food choices can help understand
facets of the growing obesity epidemic. Focusing on consumers' subjective sensations as …

As taste perception varies between individuals, it might be important in explaining food
consumption behavior. Previous studies have focused on sensitivity to the bitter tastant …

Wide availability of highly palatable foods is often blamed for the rising incidence of obesity.
As palatability is largely determined by the sensory properties of food, this study investigated …

Background Exposure to food odours increases the appetite for congruent foods and
decreases the appetite for incongruent foods. However, the effect of exposure to a variety of …

The present study investigated how the sensory taste profile of a meal altered the subjective
desire, wanting and liking of foods with a sweet, salty, sour, bitter, fatty, and spicy sensory …

Olfactory food cues were found to increase appetite for products similar in taste. We aimed to
replicate this phenomenon for taste (sweet/savoury), determine whether it extends to energy …