The pathogenesis of obesity

SM Oussaada, KA Van Galen, MI Cooiman… - Metabolism, 2019 - Elsevier
Body fat mass increases when energy intake exceeds energy expenditure. In the long term,
a positive energy balance will result in obesity. The worldwide prevalence of obesity has …

The differential role of smell and taste for eating behavior

S Boesveldt, K de Graaf - Perception, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Food choice and food intake are guided by both sensory and metabolic processes. The
senses of taste and smell play a key role in the sensory effects on choice and intake. This …

Dietary palmitic acid promotes a prometastatic memory via Schwann cells

G Pascual, D Domínguez, M Elosúa-Bayes… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Fatty acid uptake and altered metabolism constitute hallmarks of metastasis,, yet evidence of
the underlying biology, as well as whether all dietary fatty acids are prometastatic, is lacking …

The influence of taste liking on the consumption of nutrient rich and nutrient poor foods

DG Liem, CG Russell - Frontiers in nutrition, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Repeated consumption of high-energy nutrient poor foods can lead to undesirable health
outcomes such as obesity. Taste plays an important role in food choice, and a better …

Surmounting the off-flavor challenge in plant-based foods

W Leonard, P Zhang, D Ying, Z Fang - Critical reviews in food …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Plant-based food products have been receiving an astronomical amount of attention
recently, and their demand will most likely soar in the future. However, their unpleasant …

A systematic review of the biological mediators of fat taste and smell

RB Jaime-Lara, BE Brooks, C Vizioli… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Taste and smell play a key role in our ability to perceive foods. Overconsumption of highly
palatable energy-dense foods can lead to increased caloric intake and obesity. Thus there is …

Systematic review of olfactory shifts related to obesity

M Peng, D Coutts, T Wang, YO Cakmak - Obesity reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The modern food environment is a key driver of rising levels of obesity. While
olfaction is known to play a major role in food choice; however, its relationship to obesity is …

Umami as an 'alimentary'taste. A new perspective on taste classification

IE Hartley, DG Liem, R Keast - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Applied taste research is increasingly focusing on the relationship with diet and health, and
understanding the role the sense of taste plays in encouraging or discouraging …

Alternative fat: redefining adipocytes for biomanufacturing cultivated meat

S Sugii, CYQ Wong, AKO Lwin, LJM Chew - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Cellular agriculture provides a potentially sustainable way of producing cultivated meat as
an alternative protein source. In addition to muscle and connective tissue, fat is an important …

[HTML][HTML] On the human taste perception: Molecular-level understanding empowered by computational methods

L Pallante, M Malavolta, G Grasso, A Korfiati… - Trends in Food Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The perception of taste is a prime example of complex signal transduction at the
subcellular level, involving an intricate network of molecular machinery, which can be …