The NOVA classification system categorizes foods according to their level of processing to
differentiate between industrially prepared, or Ultra-Processed (UP), and home-prepared, or …

Objective Food odors serve as powerful stimuli signaling the food quality and energy density
and direct food‐specific appetite and consumption. This study explored obesity‐related …

Introduction Growing researches have shown that obese/overweight and healthy weight
individuals exhibit different neural responses to food-related stimuli. Accordingly …

Abstract Purpose of Review The food addiction model suggests the compelling hypothesis
that compulsive overeating and drug addictions share common neurobiological …

This article reviews the previous studies on the distinction between food cravings and
appetite, and how they are regulated by hormones and reflected in brain activity. Based on …

Individuals with obesity (OB) prefer immediate rewards of food intake over the delayed
reward of healthy well-being achieved through diet management and physical activity …

Childhood obesity is a rising problem caused in part by unhealthy food choices. Food
choices are based on a neural value signal encoded in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex …

Background: Overweight people have been revealed to have poor cognitive flexibility.
Cognitive flexibility reflects proactive and reactive control abilities. However, the impairment …

Multiple references in sensory science indicate that foods evoke memories during
consumption, however, research regarding those memories is still limited. The objective of …

Cross-cultural studies suggest that people typically prefer to eat familiar foods from their own
culture rather than foreign foods from other cultures. On this basis, it is plausible that neural …