Oleogustus: the unique taste of fat

CA Running, BA Craig, RD Mattes - Chemical senses, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… These findings directly address the weakest link in the proposition that fat is a basic taste
quality and we suggest a new word to describe this taste: oleogustus. Fat taste signaling may …

A review of the evidence supporting the taste of non-esterified fatty acids in humans

CA Running, RD Mattes - Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 2016 - Springer
… protein in taste cell tissue of rodents [37–39]. If this is true for humans as well, and if CD36
is indeed a receptor for oleogustus, then exposure to fat could modulate oleogustus sensation, …

[HTML][HTML] New evidence for fat as a primary taste quality

D Gaillard, SC Kinnamon - Acta physiologica (Oxford, England), 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
taste of fat or “oleogustus” has been suggested as a sixth basic taste modality, but the
qualification of taste bud-mediated fat … the existence of a unique taste for fat, and Yasumatsu and …

Taste responses to linoleic acid: a crowdsourced population study

…, Genetics of Taste Lab Citizen Scientists - Chemical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… objective was to estimate the heritability of fat taste (oleogustus). A pedigree analysis was
… the fat taste intensity of graded concentrations of linoleic acid (LA) embedded in taste strips. …

Fat taste signal transduction and its possible negative modulator components

D Shanmugamprema, K Muthuswamy… - Progress in Lipid …, 2020 - Elsevier
… In this review, recent developments in the field of oleogustus and its … for fat taste - “Oleogustus
where the Latin root word “oleo” means oily or fatty and the word “gustus” implies taste. …

Fat sensation: Fatty acid taste and olfaction sensitivity and the link with disinhibited eating behaviour

S Kindleysides, KL Beck, DCI Walsh, L Henderson… - Nutrients, 2017 - mdpi.com
… a nose clip for the taste evaluation only. Prior to sensory testing, a short training procedure
was conducted to familiarise each participant with the unique taste of the oleic acid solution (…

Taste, teleology and macronutrient intake

RD Mattes - Current Opinion in Physiology, 2021 - Elsevier
… Umami reportedly assists with meeting essential amino acid requirements while fat taste (oleogustus)
helps to satisfy essential fatty acid and energy requirements. We challenge this …

Perceived intensity and palatability of fatty culinary preparations is associated with individual fatty acid detection threshold and the fatty acid profile of oils used as …

E Tarragon, P Cases Ceano-Vivas… - Chemical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
oleogustus was recently proposed to describe a sixth basic taste that could guide preference
for fatty … However, experimental data on food preference based on fatty acid (FA) content is …

Comparisons of fatty acid taste detection thresholds in people who are lean vs. overweight or obese: a systematic review and meta-analysis

RM Tucker, KA Kaiser, MA Parman, BJ George… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… The present meta-analysis reveals no significant association between oleogustus and BMI.
The literature is currently comprised of a limited number of controlled studies with very small …

A new perspective on obesity: perception of fat taste and its relationship with obesity

B Şeref, H Yıldıran - Nutrition Reviews, 2024 - academic.oup.com
… suggested that fat can be perceived as a sixth taste, by identifying fat receptors.… fat and on
whether the taste of fat, which emerged as oleogustus, (from the Latin oleo, meaning oil or fatty