Taste of Modern Diets: The Impact of Food Processing on Nutrient Sensing and Dietary Energy Intake.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both fresh and processed foods are available in the modern food environment where taste can signal presence of nutrients. However, whether these taste-nutrient relationships are maintained across different degrees of food processing is not well understood, and less is known about the relative contribution of different taste qualities to population energy intakes.

Objectives

To investigate the association between perceived intensity of 6 taste modalities and a food's nutrient content in the context of food processing and to further examine the relative contribution of different taste clusters to total energy intakes, stratified by weight status.

Methods

Diet and lifestyle data from the Singapore Multi-Ethnic Cohort Phase 2 (N = 7011; aged 21-75 y) were colle

SUBMITTER: Teo PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8754564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature