Sensory influences on food intake control: Moving beyond palatability

Hermann et al. (2019) writes that while the measuring of food cue reactivity through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can help determine people with dysregulated reward brain systems and increased susceptibility to environmental cues that tend to cause obesity, weight loss interventions have more recently been shown to possibly influence fMRI food cue reactivity. This […]

Yin et al. (2017) investigated the impacts of aroma and taste, on its own and as a combination, on appetite sensation and on subsequent food consumption. In this study, 26 female participants (24 ± 4 years, 20.9 ± 1.9 kg⋅m−2) were given 15 minutes to drink either water (S2, 0 kcal), water with strawberry aroma […]