Tasting more than just food: Effect of aesthetic appeal of plate patterns on food perception

This 2021 article describes three studies conducted analyzing the effect of food media that appear on social networks on viewers. The authors hypothesize that the implied caloric density of the foods viewed on social media can influence the level of engagement of that post. After examining Buzzfeed’s Tasty videos, Pancer et al. deduced that the […]

The purpose of this 2017 study was to evaluate the relationship between four different psychophysical measurements of sweet taste perception (detection and recognition thresholds, sweet taste intensity and hedonic liking of suprathreshold concentrations) using glucose as the tastant (substance that stimulates the sensation of taste). Another aim was to discover a measure that associates with […]