ArticleChildhood obesity (Print)2017
Personal Variation in Preference for Sweetness: Effects of Age and Obesity.
Article in Childhood obesity (Print), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03627351 (Taste of Medicines for Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Taste of Medicines for Children: Genetic Variation and Medical Adherence (Aim 1)
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparing body composition between the sweet-liking phenotypes: experimental data, systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2024Pooled it
- Phenol-Rich Food Acceptability: The Influence of Variations in Sweetness Optima and Sensory-Liking Patterns.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Exposure to a slightly sweet lipid-based nutrient supplement during early life does not increase the level of sweet taste most preferred among 4- to 6-year-old Ghanaian children: follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Trial
- Personal variation in the palatability and side effects of liquid clindamycin among children.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Reduced Fat Taste Sensitivity and Its Association with Childhood Obesity in Tunisian Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Genetic and Environmental Influences on Sweet Taste Liking and Related Traits: New Insights from Twin Cohorts.Behavior genetics · 2025Article
- Differences in hedonic perception of retronasal odors between young children and adults.Chemical senses · 2025Article
- Liking for Sweet Taste, Sweet Food Intakes, and Sugar Intakes.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Understanding the determinants of sweet taste liking in the African and East Asian ancestry groups in the U.S.-A study protocol.PloS one · 2024Article
- Understanding the Determinants of Sweet Liking in the African and East Asian Ancestry Groups in the U.S. - A Study Protocol.Research square · 2023Article
- Responsive Sensory Evaluation to Develop Flexible Taste-Masked Paediatric Primaquine Tablets against Malaria for Low-Resource Settings.Pharmaceutics · 2023Article
- Early-life influences of low-calorie sweetener consumption on sugar taste.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Study protocol of the sweet tooth study, randomized controlled trial with partial food provision on the effect of low, regular and high dietary sweetness exposure on sweetness preferences in Dutch adults.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Enhancement of taste by retronasal odors in patients with Wolfram syndrome and decreased olfactory function.Chemical senses · 2023Article
- The influence of the subcortex and brain stem on overeating: How advances in functional neuroimaging can be applied to expand neurobiological models to beyond the cortex.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2022Review
- Characterizing Individual Differences in Sweet Taste Hedonics: Test Methods, Locations, and Stimuli.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Sex- and weight-specific changes in the frequency of sweet treat consumption during early adolescence: a longitudinal study.The British journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Dietary Habits and Choices of 4-to-6-Year-Olds: Do Children Have a Preference for Sweet Taste?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Perspective: Measuring Sweetness in Foods, Beverages, and Diets: Toward Understanding the Role of Sweetness in Health.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Review
- SODA MAPS: A Framework for Understanding Caffeinated Sugary Drink Consumption Among Children.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundUse of nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs), which provide sweet taste with few to no calories, has increased, but data on whether children's hedonic responses to NNSs differ from nutritive sugars or from adults' hedonic responses are limited.
methodsMost preferred levels of sucrose and the NNS sucralose were determined via a forced-choice tracking procedure in 48 children, 7-14 years (mean = 10 years), and 34 adults. Each participant also rated the liking of these taste stimuli, as well as varying concentrations of aspartame on 3- and 5-point facial hedonic scales. Anthropometric measures were obtained, and motives for palatable food intake were assessed with the Palatable Eating Motives Scale (PEMS, adults) and Kids PEMS.
resultsWhile use of the 3-point scale showed no age-related differences in liking of sweeteners, the 5-point scale showed that more children than adults liked higher concentrations of sucrose, sucralose, and aspartame, and the tracking procedure showed that children most preferred higher concentrations of sucrose and sucralose than adults. Regardless of age, sweet preference did not differ between obese and nonobese participants and showed no association with motives for eating palatable foods. Children's body mass index z-scores were positively associated with social and conformity motive scores for eating palatable foods.
conclusionResearch should move beyond measures of variation in sweet taste hedonics to include identifying motives, and the physiological and psychological consequences of eating sweets, to shed light on what children are more vulnerable to develop unfavorable eating habits, increasing risk for obesity, and other diseases.
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