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Sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence
In the last few years, several approaches have been postulated for tackling the global increase in overweight and obesity rates, including different dietary macronutrient compositions or the timing of meals. Recently, taste modulation has come into focus as a possible approach for influencing dietar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10622747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37927507 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1289028 |
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description | In the last few years, several approaches have been postulated for tackling the global increase in overweight and obesity rates, including different dietary macronutrient compositions or the timing of meals. Recently, taste modulation has come into focus as a possible approach for influencing dietary behavior. The perception of sweet taste is innate and an evolutionary protection mechanism to prevent primates from eating poisonous plants. It is hypothesized that this innate sweetness preference could be modulated by dietary sweetness, including sweet foods and beverages, which results in a learned sweetness preference that affects energy intake and body weight. However, this hypothesis is not supported by unanimous scientific evidence. This review provides an update of the current literature, regarding the modulation of sweetness preference as a possible new approach in the prevention of overweight and obesity. In general, results from observation as well as interventional studies in all age groups are heterogeneous. The majority showed no effect of dietary sweetness modulation on sweetness preference, energy intake or anthropometric measures. Therefore, the modulation of sweetness preference due to diet, foods or beverages is still a hypothesis and not scientifically proven. However, due to the lack of data, more research is necessary. |
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spelling | pubmed-106227472023-11-04 Sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence Prinz, Philip Front Nutr Nutrition In the last few years, several approaches have been postulated for tackling the global increase in overweight and obesity rates, including different dietary macronutrient compositions or the timing of meals. Recently, taste modulation has come into focus as a possible approach for influencing dietary behavior. The perception of sweet taste is innate and an evolutionary protection mechanism to prevent primates from eating poisonous plants. It is hypothesized that this innate sweetness preference could be modulated by dietary sweetness, including sweet foods and beverages, which results in a learned sweetness preference that affects energy intake and body weight. However, this hypothesis is not supported by unanimous scientific evidence. This review provides an update of the current literature, regarding the modulation of sweetness preference as a possible new approach in the prevention of overweight and obesity. In general, results from observation as well as interventional studies in all age groups are heterogeneous. The majority showed no effect of dietary sweetness modulation on sweetness preference, energy intake or anthropometric measures. Therefore, the modulation of sweetness preference due to diet, foods or beverages is still a hypothesis and not scientifically proven. However, due to the lack of data, more research is necessary. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10622747/ /pubmed/37927507 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1289028 Text en Copyright © 2023 Prinz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Nutrition Prinz, Philip Sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence |
title | Sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence |
title_full | Sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence |
title_fullStr | Sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence |
title_full_unstemmed | Sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence |
title_short | Sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence |
title_sort | sweetness preference and its impact on energy intake and body weight – a review of evidence |
topic | Nutrition |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10622747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37927507 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1289028 |
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