Sweetness of Chilean Infants' Diets: Methodology and Description.

ABSTRACT: Sugars and other sweeteners contribute to the sweet taste of foods; exposure to this taste could alter appetite regulation and preferences for sweet products. Despite this, there is no widely accepted methodology for estimating overall diet sweetness. The objective of this study was to develop a methodology to estimate diet sweetness and describe diet sweetness in a cohort of Chilean infants. In order to estimate diet sweetness density, the sweetness intensity of foods was obtained from existing databases and from sensory evaluations in products with no available information and then linked to 24-h dietary recalls of infants at 12 and 36 months of age. Diet sweetness density was significantly and positively associated with total sugars and non-nutritive sweeteners intakes. The main food so

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9003557 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature