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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The topic of sweet taste and the relationship to health is one that has been of interest to
researchers for many years. Recently, reduced consumption of sweet-tasting foods and …

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

In the last few years, several approaches have been postulated for tackling the global
increase in overweight and obesity rates, including different dietary macronutrient …

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 …

Background Several health organizations recommend lowering the consumption of sweet-
tasting foods. The rationale behind this recommendation is that a lower exposure to sweet …

Purpose: The study was conducted to evaluate whether body fat is a better measure than
body mass index (BMI) for determining the relationship between body size and sweetness …