Characterizing Adolescents' Dietary Intake by Taste: Results From the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey.

ABSTRACT: The taste of foods is a key factor for adolescents' food choices and intakes, yet, exploring taste characteristics of adolescents' diet is limited. Using food records for 284 adolescents (10-19 years old) from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), year 9 (2016-2017), we classified diets according to taste. Tastes for each food consumed were generated from a previous survey that asked participants to allocate one main taste to each food. Responses from that survey were processed and included in a Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) to identify taste clusters. The resulting tastes were then applied to the adolescents' food records in the NDNS. For each individual, the total weight of food per day for each taste was calculated. A linear regression model was used to explore dietary in

SUBMITTER: Bawajeeh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9251474 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature