Is sweet taste perception associated with sweet food liking and intake?

While Zijlstra et al. (2009) has observed the impact of food viscosity on food consumption, the team wants to test whether bite size and oral processing time (OPT) also affect people’s intake when food is readily available for eating. There were 7 test conditions in total, including small (about 5g) or large (~15g) bite sizes. […]

Since higher food viscosity leads to longer stimulation of the oral senses, Mars et al. set out to study the metabolic responses associated with these sensory signals that are firing during consumption. This study specifically looked at the impact of food viscosity on people’s learned satiation (feeling of fullness). To begin, the participants were split […]