Is sweet taste perception associated with sweet food liking and intake?
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Date
11/07/2017
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MDPI
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Abstract
A range of psychophysical taste measurements are used to characterize an individual’s
sweet taste perception and to assess links between taste perception and dietary intake. The aims of
this study were to investigate the relationship between four different psychophysical measurements
of sweet taste perception, and to explore which measures of sweet taste perception relate to sweet
food intake. Forty-four women aged 20–40 years were recruited for the study. Four measures of sweet
taste perception (detection and recognition thresholds, and sweet taste intensity and hedonic liking
of suprathreshold concentrations) were assessed using glucose as the tastant. Dietary measurements
included a four-day weighed food record, a sweet food-food frequency questionnaire and a sweet
beverage liking questionnaire. Glucose detection and recognition thresholds showed no correlation
with suprathreshold taste measurements or any dietary intake measurement. Importantly, sweet
taste intensity correlated negatively with total energy and carbohydrate (starch, total sugar, fructose,
glucose) intakes, frequency of sweet food intake and sweet beverage liking. Furthermore, sweet
hedonic liking correlated positively with total energy and carbohydrate (total sugar, fructose, glucose)
intakes. The present study shows a clear link between sweet taste intensity and hedonic liking with
sweet food liking, and total energy, carbohydrate and sugar intake.
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glucose thresholds, sweet taste intensity, hedonic liking, food intake, beverage liking
Citation
NUTRIENTS, 2017, 9 (7)