Background: The rise in nutrition-related morbidity and mortality requires public health
intervention programs targeting nutritional behavior. In addition to socio-economical, socio …

Research on those variables that have been shown to influence the consumer's choice of
beer is reviewed. The focus is on the choice of whether to drink beer as opposed to a …

Citizen science models of public participation in scientific research represent a growing area
of opportunity for health and biomedical research, as well as new impetus for more …

The perception of flavor is perhaps the most multisensory of our everyday experiences. The
latest research by psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists increasingly reveals the …

Food choice is influenced by many interacting factors in humans. Its multidimensional and
complex nature is well recognized, particularly within the sensory and consumer food …

Background There are five common, independent measures used to characterize taste
function in humans: detection and recognition thresholds (DT and RT), suprathreshold …

Oral microbiome dysbiosis has been associated with various local and systemic human
diseases such as dental caries, periodontal disease, obesity, and cardiovascular disease …

Fairly poor data are available on the relationship between taste perception, food
preferences and oral microbiota. In the present study, we investigated the hypothesis that …

Behavioral reaction to different taste qualities affects nutritional status and health. 6-n-
Propylthiouracil (PROP) tasting has been reported to be a marker of variation in taste …

Obesity is a multifactorial disease with several potential causes that remain incompletely
understood. Recent changes in the environment, which has become increasingly …