Personal Variation in Preference for Sweetness: Effects of Age and Obesity

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 369-376

  Bobowski, Nuala ^a,b   Mennella, Julie A ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children; nonnutritive sweetener; obesity; preference; sucrose; taste

Indexed keywords

ASPARTAME; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT; TRICHLOROSUCROSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TASTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASPARTAME; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE;

EID: 85024372449     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2017.0023     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. World Health Organization. Sugars intake for adults and children. 2015. Available at www.who.int/nutrition/publications/guidelines/sugars-intake/en/Last accessed September 15, 2016.
2. U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015-2020. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015.
3. Welsh JA, Sharma AJ, Grellinger L, et al. Consumption of added sugars is decreasing in the United States. Am J Clin Nutr 2011; 94:726-734.
4. Drewnowski A, Rehm CD. Consumption of added sugars among US children and adults by food purchase location and food source. Am J Clin Nutr 2014;100:901-907.
5. Brisbois TD, Marsden SL, Anderson GH, et al. Estimated intakes and sources of total and added sugars in the Canadian diet. Nutrients 2014;6:1899-1912.
6. Louie JC, Moshtaghian H, Rangan AM, et al. Intake and sources of added sugars among Australian children and adolescents. Eur J Nutr 2015;16:1-9.
7. Sluik D, van Lee L, Engelen AI, et al. Total, free, and added sugar consumption and adherence to guidelines: The Dutch national food consumption survey 2007-2010. Nutrients 2016;8:70.
8. Piernas C, Ng SW, Mendez MA, et al. A dynamic panel model of the associations of sweetened beverage purchases with dietary quality and food-purchasing patterns. Am J Epidemiol 2015;181:661-671.
9. Vos MB, Kaar JL, Welsh JA, et al. Added sugars and cardiovascular disease risk in children: A scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2016 [Epub ahead of print]; DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000439.
10. Malik VS, Popkin BM, Bray GA, et al. Sugar-sweetened beverages, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease risk. Circulation 2010;121:1356-1364.
11. Welsh JA, Cunningham SA. The role of added sugars in pediatric obesity. Pediatr Clin North Am 2011;58:1455-1466.
12. Sylvetsky AC, Welsh JA, Brown RJ, et al. Low-calorie sweetener consumption is increasing in the United States. Am J Clin Nutr 2012;96:640-646.
13. Drewnowski A, Rehm CD. Socio-demographic correlates and trends in low-calorie sweetener use among adults in the United States from 1999 to 2008. Eur J Clin Nutr 2015;69:1035-1041.
14. Keast DR, Fulgoni VL, Nicklas TA, et al. Food sources of energy and nutrients among children in the United States: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2006. Nutrients 2013;5: 283-301.
15. Slining MM, Popkin BM. Trends in intakes and sources of solid fats and added sugars among U.S. children and adolescents: 1994-2010. Pediatr Obes 2013;8:307-324.
16. Harris JL, Schwartz MB, Brownell KD, et al. 2012. Cereal FACTS: Evaluating the nutrition quality and marketing of children's cereals. Available at www.cerealfacts.org Last accessed December 14, 2016.
17. Yang Q. Gain weight by "going diet?" Artificial sweeteners and the neurobiology of sugar cravings. Yale J Biol Med 2010;83: 101-108.
18. Fooducate. Kool-aid soft drink mix, low calorie, sugar free, cherry. 2016. Available at www.fooducate.com/app#!page=product&id= 1FB5D3DE-E10B-11DF-A102-FEFD45A4D471 Last accessed June 23, 2016.
19. Walsh J, Cram A, Woertz K, et al. Playing hide and seek with poorly tasting paediatric medicines: Do not forget the excipients. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2014;73:14-33.
20. Sylvetsky AC, Greenberg M, Zhao X, et al. What parents think about giving nonnutritive sweeteners to their children: A pilot study. Int J Pediatr 2014;2014:Article ID 819872.
21. Roberts MW, Wright JT. Nonnutritive, low caloric substitutes for food sugars: Clinical implications for addressing the incidence of dental caries and overweight/obesity. Int J Dent 2012;2012:Article ID 625701.
22. Mattes RD. Low calorie sweeteners: Science and controversy. Conference proceedings. Physiol Behav 2016;164:429-431.
23. Swithers SE. Artificial sweeteners are not the answer to childhood obesity. Appetite 2015;93:85-90.
24. Brown RJ, de Banate MA, Rother KI. Artificial sweeteners: A systematic review of metabolic effects in youth. Int J Pediatr Obes 2010;5:305-312.
25. Olivier B, Serge AH, Catherine A, et al. Review of the nutritional benefits and risks related to intense sweeteners. Arch Public Health 2015;73:41.
26. Jin Y, Sylvetsky AC, Welsh JA, et al. Consumption of low-calorie sweeteners in the United States 2009-12. 2016. Poster presented at GW Research Days, Washington, DC.
27. de Ruyter JC, Katan MB, Kuijper LD, et al. The effect of sugar-free versus sugar-sweetened beverages on satiety, liking and wanting: An 18 month randomized double-blind trial in children. PLoS One 2013;8:e78039.
28. de Ruyter JC, Katan MB, Kas R, et al. Can children discriminate sugar-sweetened from non-nutritively sweetened beverages and how do they like them? PLoS One 2014;9: e115113.
29. Li XE, Lopetcharat K, Drake MA. Parents' and children's acceptance of skim chocolate milks sweetened by monk fruit and stevia leaf extracts. J Food Sci 2015;80:S1083-S1092.
30. Freedman SB, Cho D, Boutis K, et al. Assessing the palatability of oral rehydration solutions in school-aged children: A randomized crossover trial. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2010;164: 696-702.
31. Mennella JA, Finkbeiner S, Lipchock SV, et al. Preferences for salty and sweet tastes are elevated and related to each other during childhood. PLoS One 2014;9:e92201.
32. Mennella JA. Ontogeny of taste preferences: Basic biology and implications for health. Am J Clin Nutr 2014;99:704S-711S.
33. Food and Drug Administration. High-intensity sweeteners. 2014. Available at www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/FoodAdditivesIngredients/ucm397716.htm Last accessed September 14, 2016.
34. Piernas C, Mendez MA, Ng SW, et al. Low-calorie-and calorie-sweetened beverages: Diet quality, food intake, and purchase patterns of US household consumers. Am J Clin Nutr 2014;99: 567-577.
35. Coldwell SE, Mennella JA, Duffy VB, et al. Gustation assessment using the NIH Toolbox. Neurology 2013;80:S20-S24.
36. Sinopoli DA, Lawless HT. Taste properties of potassium chloride alone and in mixtures with sodium chloride using a check-all-that-apply method. J Food Sci 2012;77:S319-S322.
37. Reed DR, McDaniel AH. The human sweet tooth. BMC Oral Health 2006;6:S17.
38. Pepino MY, Mennella JA. Sucrose-induced analgesia is related to sweet preferences in children but not adults. Pain 2005;119:210-218.
39. Burgess EE, Turan B, Lokken KL, et al. Profiling motives behind hedonic eating. Preliminary validation of the palatable eating motives scale. Appetite 2014;72:66-72.
40. Boggiano MM, Wenger LE, Mrug S, et al. The kids-palatable eating motives scale: Relation to BMI and binge eating traits. Eat Behav2015;17:69-73.
41. Mennella JA, Lukasewycz LD, Griffith JW, et al. Evaluation of the Monell forced-choice, paired-comparison tracking procedure for determining sweet taste preferences across the lifespan. Chem Senses 2011;36:345-355.
42. Wiet S, Beyts PK. Sensory characteristics of sucralose and other high intensity sweeteners. J Food Sci 1992;57:1014-1019.
43. Knaapila A, Hwang LD, Lysenko A, et al. Genetic analysis of chemosensory traits in human twins. Chem Senses 2012;37:869-881.
44. Mennella JA, Bobowski NK. Psychophysical tracking method to measure taste preferences in children and adults. JOVE 2016;113: e354163.
45. Boggiano MM, Wenger LE, Burgess EE, et al. Eating tasty foods to cope, enhance reward, socialize or conform: What other psychological characteristics describe each of these motives? J Health Psychol 2015 [Epub ahead of print]; DOI: 10.1177/1359105315600240.
46. Boggiano MM. Palatable Eating Motives Scale in a college population: Distribution of scores and scores associated with greater BMI and binge-eating. Eat behav 2016;21:95-98.
47. Siegel S, Castellan NJ. The case of k related samples. In: Non-parametric Statistics for Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed, D. Ankerted. McGraw-Hill: New York, 1988, pp. 168-189.
48. Pew Charitable Trust. Philadelphia: The State of the City, a 2016 Update. 2016. Available at www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2016/03/philadelphia-the-state-of-the-city-a-2016-update Last accessed December 3, 2016.
49. Chambers E. Commentary: Conducting sensory research in children. J Sens Stud 2005;20:90-92.
50. Mennella JA, Bobowski NK. The sweetness and bitterness of childhood: Insights from basic research on taste preferences. Physiol Behav 2015;152:502-507.
51. Coldwell SE, Oswald TK, Reed DR. A marker of growth differs between adolescents with high vs. low sugar preference. Physiol Behav 2009;96:574-580.
52. Drewnowski A. Sensory control of energy density at different life stages. Proc Nutr Soc 2000;59:239-244.
53. Ervin RB, Kit BK, Carroll MD, et al. Consumption of added sugar among U.S. children and adolescents, 2005-2008. NCHS Data Brief 2012;87:1-8.
54. Mennella JA, Finkbeiner S, Reed DR. The proof is in the pudding: Children prefer lower fat but higher sugar than do mothers. Int J Obes (Lond). 2012;36:1285-1291.
55. Beauchamp GK, Moran M. Acceptance of sweet and salty tastes in 2-year-old children. Appetite 1984;5:291-305.
56. Filer LJ. Studies of taste preference in infancy and childhood. Pediatric Basics 1978;12:5-9.
57. Duffy VB. Multi-level interventions to improve vegetable consumption in children. 2013. Poster presented at AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
58. Mennella JA, Bobowski NK, Reed DR. The development of sweet taste: From biology to hedonics. Rev Endocr Metab Disord 2016;17:171-178.
59. Sylvetsky AC, Blau JE, Rother KI. Understanding the metabolic and health effects of low-calorie sweeteners: Methodological considerations and implications for future research. Rev Endocr Metab Disord 2016;17:187-194.
60. Hu FB. Resolved: There is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Obes Rev 2013;14:606-619.
61. Vucetic Z, Reyes TM. Central dopaminergic circuitry controlling food intake and reward: Implications for the regulation of obesity. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med 2010;2:577-593.
62. Burke MV, Small DM. Physiological mechanisms by which non-nutritive sweeteners may impact body weight and metabolism. Physiol Behav 2015;152:381-388.