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

Energy homeostasis plays a significant role in food consumption and body weight regulation
with fat intake being an area of particular interest due to its palatability and high energy …

Except for drinking water, most beverages taste bitter or sweet. Taste perception and
preferences are heritable and determinants of beverage choice and consumption …

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

As most parents and caregivers are aware, feeding children a nutritionally balanced diet can
be challenging. Children are born with a biological predisposition to prefer sweet and to …

The aim of the present study is to explore the association between food neophobia and
chemosensory responsiveness and to determine whether this association translates into …

Individuals undergoing treatment for cancer can experience changes in taste or smell that
are often assumed to affect constructs related to food behavior, although this relationship is …

Many drugs and desirable phytochemicals are bitter, and bitter tastes are aversive. Food
and pharmaceutical manufacturers share a common need for bitterness-masking strategies …

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 …

Understanding the influence of taste perception on food choice has captured the interest of
academics, industry, and the general public, the latter as evidenced by the extent of popular …