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Alteration, Reduction and Taste Loss: Main Causes and Potential Implications on Dietary Habits.
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- Association between oral food processing ability and nutritional status of older adults based on factor analysis.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Feasibility of the new dry taste assessment method TASENS in older adults: a pilot study in two European countries.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Oral dryness related symptoms in radiation-treated head and neck cancer patients: a pilot study of oral microbiome composition and function.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- Effect of Miracle Berry on Taste Modification Properties Among Adults Living in Australia: A Multi-Phase Study Protocol.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Nerve Injury-Induced Immune Responses in the Taste Bud Target Field.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Association Between Taste Disorders and Malnutrition in Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Nutrition reviews · 2026Article
- Interactions between taste and oral microbiome: mechanisms and implications for oral and systemic diseases.Journal of oral microbiology · 2026Review
- Taste alterations in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: an observational study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- FlavorCharter: Development of a Smartphone App for Quantifying Food Flavor.Proceedings ... ICDM workshops. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining · 2025Article
- Chemosensory tobacco product toxicology part 1: sensory mechanisms.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025Review
- DCNN models with post-hoc interpretability for the automated detection of glossitis and OSCC on the tongue.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Intranasal Calcitriol Accelerates Improvement of Sinonasal Inflammation and Olfactory Impairment in Mice After Cessation of Chronic Cigarette-Smoke Exposure.International forum of allergy & rhinology · 2025Article
- Unraveling Dysgeusia in SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Clinical and Laboratory Insights from Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Romania.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- [Development and application of gustatory evoked potentiometer].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2025Review
- Unveiling the Oral Lesions, Dysgeusia and Osteonecrosis Related to COVID-19: A Comprehensive Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Automatic detection of fungiform papillae on the human tongue via Convolutional Neural Networks and identification of the best performing model.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- Case report: dysgeusia, strawberry tongue, and psoriatic eruptions after combination treatment with adalimumab, sulfasalazine, and etoricoxib for ankylosing spondylitis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Untargeted metabolomics and lipidomics in COVID-19 patient plasma reveals disease severity biomarkers.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2024Article
- Sleep disorders as independent predictors of taste dysfunction risk.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Oral conditions are associated with salt taste disability among American adults.Oral diseases · 2024Article
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Abstract
Our sense of taste arises from the sensory information generated after compounds in the oral cavity and oropharynx activate taste receptor cells situated on taste buds. This produces the perception of sweet, bitter, salty, sour, or umami stimuli, depending on the chemical nature of the tastant. Taste impairments (dysgeusia) are alterations of this normal gustatory functioning that may result in complete taste losses (ageusia), partial reductions (hypogeusia), or over-acuteness of the sense of taste (hypergeusia). Taste impairments are not life-threatening conditions, but they can cause sufficient discomfort and lead to appetite loss and changes in eating habits, with possible effects on health. Determinants of such alterations are multiple and consist of both genetic and environmental factors, including aging, exposure to chemicals, drugs, trauma, high alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, poor oral health, malnutrition, and viral upper respiratory infections including influenza. Disturbances or loss of smell, taste, and chemesthesis have also emerged as predominant neurological symptoms of infection by the recent Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus strain 2 (SARS-CoV-2), as well as by previous both endemic and pandemic coronaviruses such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and SARS-CoV. This review is focused on the main causes of alteration, reduction, and loss of taste and their potential repercussion on dietary habits and health, with a special focus on the recently developed hypotheses regarding the mechanisms through which SARS-CoV-2 might alter taste perception.
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