By: Ervina (#ESR2) Children have different perceptions on how they respond to taste. The same concentration of bitter and sour tastes contained in one glass of grapefruit juice could for example be perceived differently by different individuals. One child may perceive that bitterness is stronger than sourness while the other may perceive a stronger sour…
17.12.2021
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basic taste, Children, ESR2, Fattiness, food preferences, gamification, individual differences, preadolescents, Sensory testing, taste sensitivity
Children have different perceptions on how they respond to taste. For example, the same concentration of bitter and sour tastes contained in one glass of grapefruit juice could be perceived differently. One child may perceive that bitterness is stronger than sourness while the other may perceive a stronger sour than bitter taste. There are also…
07.12.2021
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basic taste, Children, ESR2, Fattiness, food preferences, gamification, individual differences, preadolescents, Sensory testing, taste sensitivity
Earlier this year Ervina (ESR2) and co-workers published a study on the relationship between taste responsiveness and food liking in pre-adolescents. Taste responsiveness is one of several methods for investigating differences in taste sensitivity, i.e. that different subjects perceive the same sample as more or less intense in a specific taste, for instance sweet or…
16.11.2021
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bitterness, Children, ESR2, food preferences, individual differences, remote testing, sourness, suppression, taste intensity, warning sensations