Genetic Preference for Sweet Taste in Mothers Associates with Mother-Child Preference and Intake.

ABSTRACT: Taste perception is a well-documented driving force in food selection, with variations in, e.g., taste receptor encoding and glucose transporter genes conferring differences in taste sensitivity and food intake. We explored the impact of maternal innate driving forces on sweet taste preference and intake and assessed whether their children differed in their intake of sweet foods or traits related to sweet intake. A total of 133 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes reported to associate with eating preferences were sequenced from saliva-DNA from 187 mother-and-child pairs. Preference and intake of sweet-, bitter-, sour-, and umami-tasting foods were estimated from questionnaires. A total of 32 SNP variants associated with a preference for sweet taste or intake at a p-value

SUBMITTER: Lif Holgerson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10255080 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature