Taste acuity of obese adolescents and changes in food neophobia and food preferences during a weight reduction session

Appetite

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 302-307

  Monneuse, Marie Odile ^a   Rigal, Natalie ^b   Frelut, Marie Laure ^c   Hladik, Claude Marcel ^d   Simmen, Bruno ^a   Pasquet, Patrick ^a  

^a MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL   (France)

^d Université Diderot Paris 7   (France)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Food liking; Fruits and vegetables; Neophobia; Obesity; PROP; Taste perceived intensity; Taste recognition threshold; Weight reduction program

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; FEMALE; FOOD NEOPHOBIA; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; VEGETABLE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; CITRIC ACID; DIETARY SUCROSE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; TASTE; TASTE THRESHOLD; URACIL; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 39749137118     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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