Food perception with age and its relationship to pleasantness

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 591-602

  Kremer, Stefanie ^a   Bult, Johannes H F ^a   Mojet, Jos ^b   Kroeze, Jan H A ^b  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compensatory strategies; JND; Sensory acuity; Sensory interactions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAVOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD TEXTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASTICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; SWALLOWING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34547854273     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm028     Document Type: Article

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