Taste manipulation during a food cue-reactivity task: Effects on cue-elicited food craving and subsequent food intake among individuals with overweight and obesity.

ABSTRACT: Food cue-reactivity tasks are used to induce and evaluate food cravings. Extant research has implicated the role of tasting foods in heightening cue-elicited food craving. The present study was the first to evaluate a taste manipulation during a food cue-reactivity task to optimize cue-elicited craving and predict food intake. Participants with overweight/obesity (N = 35; M age = 33.46 years [SD = 13.27]; M BMI = 32.91 kg/m² [SD = 5.34]) engaged in one laboratory session and were randomized to a 'No Taste' or 'Taste' condition. All participants reported baseline food craving and observed two types of high-calorie food cues during a cue-reactivity task: photographic and real foods. The Taste group tasted real food cues and the No Taste group did not. Cue-elicited craving was asse

SUBMITTER: Germeroth LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6535365 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature