Sensory influences on food intake control: Moving beyond palatability

To assess whether overweight and hungry children have an attentional bias for food cues in food advertising, 95 children played an advergame that promoted either high-energy snacks or non-food products, in this 2020 randomized study. The results showed that overweight children gazed longer in response to food cues compared to normal-weight children, whereas this overweight […]

Although drinking soup is known to reduce energy intake and increase feelings of fullness, Flood & Rolls (2007) wanted to test several types of soup, as a preload, on their effects on subsequent meal intake. Sixty normal-weight participants visited the laboratory to have lunch with/without a soup preload once a week for 5 weeks. The […]