Dietary taste patterns and diet quality of female nurses around the night shift.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Night shift workers are at risk of making poor food choices: e.g. sleep deprivation may lead to higher food intake with innate preferred tastes, such as sweet, savoury and fatty foods. Therefore, better insight in dietary taste patterns of night shift workers may improve the understanding of their food choices.

Methods

This observational study assessed dietary taste patterns of 120 female night shift working nurses and compared them to 307 women of a reference population. Dietary intake, assessed with 24-h dietary recalls, was combined with a taste intensity database, including taste profiles of 557 foods. The contribution to the daily intake of 6 taste clusters was assessed: fat, neutral, sweet/fat, sweet/sour, salt/umami/fat and bitter.

Results

During night

SUBMITTER: de Rijk MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10899307 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature