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

ABSTRACT:

Background

Use of nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs), which provide sweet taste with few to no calories, has increased, but data on whether children's hedonic responses to NNSs differ from nutritive sugars or from adults' hedonic responses are limited.

Methods

Most preferred levels of sucrose and the NNS sucralose were determined via a forced-choice tracking procedure in 48 children, 7-14 years (mean = 10 years), and 34 adults. Each participant also rated the liking of these taste stimuli, as well as varying concentrations of aspartame on 3- and 5-point facial hedonic scales. Anthropometric measures were obtained, and motives for palatable food intake were assessed with the Palatable Eating Motives Scale (PEMS, adults) and Kids PEMS.

Results

While use of the 3-point scale

SUBMITTER: Bobowski N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5647502 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature