ReviewCurrent nutrition reports2019
Excessive Consumption of Sugar: an Insatiable Drive for Reward.
Review in Current nutrition reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Effect of Gymnema Sylvestre on Motivation to Consume Sweet Foods-A Qualitative Investigation.Nutrients · 2025Trial
- Perceived Stress and Disordered Eating Behaviors in Emerging Adulthood: A Multidimensional Pilot Study of Dietary and Genetic Factors.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health: A Review of Current Evidence.Current nutrition reports · 2025Review
- Consumption of High-Energy Food and Sugar Shows a Strong Positive Association with Low Mood in Control Subjects and Depressed Patients.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Recognising depression in non-human primates: a narrative review of reported signs of depression.PeerJ · 2025Review
- Can Daily Dietary Choices Have a Cardioprotective Effect? Food Compounds in the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiometabolic Diseases.Metabolites · 2024Review
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- Brazilian Front-of-Package Labeling: A Product Compliance Analysis 12 Months after Implementation of Regulations.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Experiencing sweet taste is associated with an increase in prosocial behavior.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Metabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents with Obesity: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Intake of added sugar, fruits, vegetables, and legumes of Portuguese preschool children: Baseline data from SmartFeeding4Kids randomized controlled trial participants.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Efficacy of a Novel Therapeutic, Based on Natural Ingredients and Probiotics, in a Murine Model of Multiple Food Intolerance and Maldigestion.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Comparison of prefrontal cortex sucrose seeking ensembles engaged in multiple seeking sessions: Context is key.Journal of neuroscience research · 2022Article
- The role of sugar-sweetened beverages in the global epidemics of obesity and chronic diseases.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2022Review
- Chronic Intermittent Sucrose Consumption Facilitates the Ability to Discriminate Opioid Receptor Blockade with Naltrexone in Rats.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Tolerable upper intake level for dietary sugars.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2022Article
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- The Association Between Food Addiction and Weight Status in School-Age Children and Adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Sustainable isomaltulose production inFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Sugars and Sweet Taste: Addictive or Rewarding?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewEating behavior provides energy to ensure proper functioning of the organism. Reward aids in seeking foods that bring energy and pleasant taste, whose consumption is safe. As evidenced by the obesity "epidemic" which largely stems from overeating, reward becomes a detriment when palatable tastants are available in unlimited quantities. This review presents recent evidence on mechanisms underlying palatability-driven excessive consumption of sugar. RECENT
findingsAppetite for sugar is propelled by changes in the morphology and activity of the reward system reminiscent of addiction. Sugar intake also shifts the hunger-satiety continuum, facilitating initiation of consumption in the absence of energy needs and maintenance of feeding despite ingestion of large food loads that endanger homeostasis. Ingestion of excessive amounts of sugar relies on triggering mechanisms that promote addictive-like behaviors, and on overriding neuroendocrine signals that protect internal milieu.
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