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The role of sweet taste in satiation and satiety
Low et al. (2014) explain that taste may play an important role in influencing food acceptance and/or energy intake since a person’s ability to detect or sense sweetness in the oral cavity is thought to be one of many factors involved in determining food acceptance. In addition, evidence is emerging suggesting that the signaling mechanisms related to sweet tasting may be working in the gastrointestinal system as well as in the oral cavity. To explain the excess energy intake thought to be substantially contributing to the growing global rate of obesity, a better understanding of the sweet taste system’s role is essential, not to mention greater knowledge on the individual variation in detecting sweetness in both the oral and gastrointestinal system. This review summarizes data potentially linking the sweet taste mechanisms within the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract and the brain systems (activated by caloric sugar, high intensity sweeteners and sweet tastes) with satiation (sensation of feeling full) and thereby perhaps with BMI and obesity. [NPID: perception, food acceptance, taste perception, sweet taste perception, obesity, oral system, gastrointestinal system, satiation]
Year: 2014
