Content hungry: How the nutrition of food media influences social media engagement

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, […]

In this 2007 study, Mourao et al. investigated the influence of changing food form on the appetite and energy intakes of lean and obese adults. The matched solid and beverage foods analyzed were: watermelon and watermelon juice (to represent high carbohydrate stimuli); cheese and milk (high protein); and coconut and coconut milk (represents high fat). […]