Taste perception and food choices

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 624-629

  Negri, Rossella ^a   Di Feola, Mariarosaria ^a   Di Domenico, Simone ^a   Scala, M Giuseppa ^a   Artesi, Ginevra ^a   Valente, Serena ^a   Smarrazzo, Andrea ^a   Turco, Francesca ^a   Morini, Gabriella ^b   Greco, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

6 propyl 2 thiouracil; bitter taste; food choices; TAS2R38

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PROPYLTHIOURACIL;

ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD PREFERENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION; TASTE THRESHOLD; VEGETABLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859984786     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: 15364801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e3182473308     Document Type: Article

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