Studies investigating the associations between taste sensitivity and eating behaviour in preadolescent children are still limited. Ervina, ESR2 has peeked into this association by involving 69 children-parents-dyad responses in her study. Her main objective was to explore the association between children’s basic taste sensitivity and their eating behaviour. Children’s taste sensitivity was measured using the…
Ervina (ESR2) defended recently her thesis entitled “Taste sensitivity and food liking in pre-adolescent children”. In this research she has investigated variability in taste sensitivity in pre-adolescent children and tried to link this to food liking. She as applied different tools for measuring taste sensitivity (taste responsiveness, detection and identification threshold as well as response…
23.11.2021
PhD defence
detection threshold, ESR2, identification threshold, model food, pre-adolescents, PROP, sensory sensitivity, taste identification, taste responsiveness, taste sensitivity, water solutions
