ReviewNutrients2017
Infants' and Children's Salt Taste Perception and Liking: A Review.
Review in Nutrients, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Repeated Exposure to Low-Sodium Cereal Affects Acceptance but Does not Shift Taste Preferences or Detection Thresholds of Children in a Randomized Clinical Trial.The Journal of nutrition · 2019Trial
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- Psychological Determinants of Purchasing Behavior Among Individuals Indifferent to Reduced-Salt Products.Nutrients · 2026Article
- ORIGINS: Nutritional Profile of Children Aged One Year in a Longitudinal Birth Cohort.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Association of FHIT gene variant and salty food preference with the incidence of metabolic syndrome.Genes & nutrition · 2025Article
- Differences in hedonic perception of retronasal odors between young children and adults.Chemical senses · 2025Article
- Evaluating alignment of UK commercial baby food products with the WHO nutrient and promotion profile model.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Prospective associations of infant food exposures and appetitive traits with early childhood diet quality.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Salt Intake of Children and Adolescents: Influence of Socio-Environmental Factors and School Education.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Benchmarking the nutrient composition and labelling practices of finger foods and snacks for older infants and young children across seven Southeast Asian countries.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Benchmarking the nutrient composition and labelling practices of commercially produced ready-to-eat purées and meals for older infants and young children across seven Southeast Asian countries.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Benchmarking the nutrient composition and labelling practices of dry or instant cereals for older infants and young children across seven Southeast Asian countries.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Effect of Marinating in Dairy-Fermented Products and Sous-Vide Cooking on the Protein Profile and Sensory Quality of Pork Longissimus Muscle.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Initiatives to Reduce the Content of Sodium in Food Products and Meals and Improve the Population's Health.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Development and validation of an instrument to assess Brazilians' knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors toward salt and sodium.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2022Article
- Investigating New Sensory Methods Related to Taste Sensitivity, Preferences, and Diet of Mother-Infant Pairs and Their Relationship With Body Composition and Biomarkers: Protocol for an Explorative Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
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- Characterizing Adolescents' Dietary Intake by Taste: Results From the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Infant and Toddler Responses to Bitter-Tasting Novel Vegetables: Findings from the Good Tastes Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
Sodium is an essential nutrient for the human body. It is widely used as sodium chloride (table salt) in (processed) foods and overconsumed by both children and adults, placing them at risk for adverse health effects such as high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases. The current review focusses on the development of salt taste sensitivity and preferences, and its association with food intake. Three -to- four month old infants are able to detect and prefer sodium chloride solutions over plain water, which is thought to be a biological unlearned response. Liking for water with sodium chloride mostly decreases when infants enter early childhood, but liking for sodium chloride in appropriate food contexts such as soup and snack foods remains high. The increased acceptance and preference of sodium chloride rich foods coincides with infants' exposure to salty foods, and is therefore thought to be mostly a learned response. Children prefer higher salt concentrations than adults, but seem to be equally sensitive to salt taste. The addition of salt to foods increases children's consumption of those foods. However, children's liking for salt taste as such does not seem to correlate with children's consumption of salty foods. Decreasing the exposure to salty tasting foods during early infancy is recommended. Salt plays an important role in children's liking for a variety of foods. It is, however, questionable if children's liking for salt per se influences the intake of salty foods.
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