A bio-cultural approach to the study of food choice: The contribution of taste genetics, population and culture

Appetite

Volumn 114, Issue , 2017, Pages 240-247

  Risso, Davide S ^a,b   Giuliani, Cristina ^b   Antinucci, Marco ^c   Morini, Gabriella ^d   Garagnani, Paolo ^b   Tofanelli, Sergio ^c   Luiselli, Donata ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Food choice; Genetics; Nutrition; Population diversity; Taste

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEER; BITTER TASTE; BROCCOLI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC BACKGROUND; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLYCYRRHIZA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSTARD; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTHERN EUROPEAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SRI LANKAN; SWEETNESS; TASTE; UMAMI; YOUNG ADULT; AFRICA; ALLELE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; SELF REPORT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SRI LANKA;

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M; TRPM5 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AFRICA, NORTHERN; ALLELES; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DIET; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SELF REPORT; SRI LANKA; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION; TRPM CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 85017032796     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.03.046     Document Type: Article

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