Effects of food form on appetite and energy intake in lean and obese young adults

Since food cues exposure through smelling leads to increased appetite for foods similar in taste to that smell, Zoon et al. (2016) set out to test this phenomenon using sweet/savory taste, and to assess whether this effect extends to energy density (high/low) and is modulated by the hunger state. During this experiment, 29 healthy-weight females […]

This 2016 article explores the impact of the increasing exposure in society to images of desirable foods (what is often labelled ‘food porn’, or ‘gastroporn’) via digital interfaces might have, and whether it may inadvertently be exacerbating our desire for food (what we call ‘visual hunger’). Here Spence et. al (2016) review the evidence for […]