Liking for Sweet Taste, Sweet Food Intakes, and Sugar Intakes.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Sweet taste preferences are currently targeted to aid with reducing free sugar intakes, but associations between sweet taste liking, sweet food intakes, and sugar intakes are not well established.

Methods

UK consumers (n = 179) who were consuming >5% of total energy intakes from free sugars provided several laboratory measures of sweet taste liking, laboratory test meal measures of sweet food choice and sugar intakes, and 3-day food diary measures of free-living free sugar and total sugar intakes. Liking measures included liking for a 1 M sucrose solution, and pleasantness, desire to eat, and sweet taste intensity ratings for seven foods of a range of sweet taste intensities in a taste test.

Results

Wide individual differences in sweet taste liki

SUBMITTER: Appleton KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11547215 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature