Taste perception with age: Pleasantness and its relationships with threshold sensitivity and supra-threshold intensity of five taste qualities

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 413-423

  Mojet, Jos ^a,b   Christ Hazelhof, Elly ^a   Heidema, Johannes ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross modal intensity matching; Elderly; Food; Gender; Nose clip; Optimally preferred concentration

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ASPARTAME; CAFFEINE; CITRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLIP; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE PREFERENCE;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

EID: 17544366527     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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