‘Buying salad is a lot more expensive than going to McDonalds’: Young adults’ views about what influences their food choices

In this review, McCrickerd & Forde (2016) focus on sensory characteristics and how we can utilize it to reduce people’s food/energy consumption. The regulation of intake can largely depend on the sensory processes at work while eating, particularly the hedonic/pleasure-related response to specific sensory cues. The authors note that the sensory experience begins before consumption, […]

Dietary intake of fruits and vegetables is widely known to be beneficial to health, however, many of us fail to meet the daily dietary requirements. Current research postulates that a colorful meal is synonymous to a healthy, tasty choice. In this study by König et al. (2021), the authors investigate how the relationship between ‘colorful’ […]