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Food Preferences and Obesity [PDF]

open access: yesEndocrinology and Metabolism, 2021
Obesity is a multifactorial disease with several potential causes that remain incompletely understood. Recent changes in the environment, which has become increasingly obesogenic, have been found to interact with individual factors. Evidence of the role of taste responsiveness and food preference in obesity has been reported, pointing to a lower taste ...
Spinelli, Sara, Monteleone, Erminio
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Sweetness and Food Preference [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Nutrition, 2012
Human desire for sweet taste spans all ages, races, and cultures. Throughout evolution, sweetness has had a role in human nutrition, helping to orient feeding behavior toward foods providing both energy and essential nutrients. Infants and young children in particular base many of their food choices on familiarity and sweet taste.
Drewnowski, Adam   +3 more
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Filipino consumer preferences for peanut butter

open access: yesAnnals of Tropical Research, 2006
One-on-one interviews were conducted nationwide in different regions in the Philippines. A total of 387 households participated in the survey. Most households bought peanut butter at least once a month. Results indicated that sweetness, brand, and price
F.C.F. Galvez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food Preferences of the Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) has been reported to eat vegetation, fruit, invertebrates, and occasionally fungi, eggs and meat.
Bizo, Lewis A.   +3 more
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An investigation of flavor complexity and food neophobia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Food Neophobia Scale (FNS) measures reluctance to try novel foods. In describing foods, the term complexity is not well defined. The objective of this work was to assess the acceptability of familiar and novel foods, with varying levels of flavor ...
Neuhaus, Thomas   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Activation of AMPK-Regulated CRH Neurons in the PVH is Sufficient and Necessary to Induce Dietary Preference for Carbohydrate over Fat

open access: yesCell Reports, 2018
Food selection is essential for metabolic homeostasis and is influenced by nutritional state, food palatability, and social factors such as stress. However, the mechanism responsible for selection between a high-carbohydrate diet (HCD) and a high-fat ...
Shiki Okamoto   +24 more
doaj   +1 more source

Winter food habits of the Common Palm Civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Viverridae) in Patna Bird Sanctuary, India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2019
Food habits of the Common Palm Civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus were investigated using scat analysis method, a technique widely used to study small and medium sized mammals.
Khursid Alam Khan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food safety in Finland 2021 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This report presents the 2021 results of regulatory control related to food safety, official controls and monitoring programmes on food and feed, as well as research and risk assessments.
Finnish Food Authority, Finnish Food Authority
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Toddlers’ food preferences. The impact of novel food exposure, maternal preferences and food neophobia

open access: yesAppetite, 2012
Food preferences have been identified as a key determinant of children's food acceptance and consumption. The aim of this study was to identify factors that influence children's liking for fruits, vegetables and non-core foods. Participants were Australian mothers (median age at delivery=31years, 18-46years) and their two-year-old children (M=24months,
Howard, Anika   +4 more
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Dopamine and learned food preferences [PDF]

open access: yesPhysiology & Behavior, 2011
An early study performed in Bart Hoebel's laboratory suggested that dopamine (DA) signaling in the nucleus accumbens was involved in learned flavor preferences produced by post-oral nutritive feedback. This paper summarizes our studies investigating the role of DA in flavor preference conditioning using selective DA receptor antagonists.
Anthony, Sclafani   +2 more
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