ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2021
Perspective: Measuring Sweetness in Foods, Beverages, and Diets: Toward Understanding the Role of Sweetness in Health.
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- Effects of a six-day, whole-diet sweet taste intervention on pleasantness, desire for and intakes of sweet foods: a randomised controlled trial.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
- Change in liking following reduction in sweetness level of carbonated beverages: a randomized controlled parallel trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Characterization and Comparison of Dietary Taste Patterns in Five Countries With Differing Obesity Prevalence.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Development of a cell-based sweet perception model to study the metabolic effect of different sweeteners.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- EEG feature extraction and machine learning for consumer preference analysis of whisky.Current research in food science · 2026Article
- Sweetness Ratings of U.S. Infant Formulas.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Preparation of N-succinyl-L-tryptophan: investigating its sweetness-enhancing effects and mechanisms on sucrose and high-intensity sweeteners through sensory evaluation, electronic tongue, and molecular simulation.Food chemistry: X · 2025Article
- Sweet taste preference on snack choice, added sugars intake, and diet quality- a pilot study.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Declining trends in sweetness of the diet in the United Kingdom: 2008/9-2018/19.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Liking for Sweet Taste, Sweet Food Intakes, and Sugar Intakes.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Determining the sweet detection threshold of COVID-19 patients during infection and recovery periods.PloS one · 2024Article
- Scoping Review and Evidence Map of the Relation between Exposure to Dietary Sweetness and Body Weight-Related Outcomes in Adults.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Harnessing Food Product Reviews for Personalizing Sweetness Levels.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Challenge of Measuring Sweet Taste in Food Ingredients and Products for Regulatory Compliance: A Scientific Opinion.Journal of AOAC International · 2022Article
- Characterizing Individual Differences in Sweet Taste Hedonics: Test Methods, Locations, and Stimuli.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Taste of Modern Diets: The Impact of Food Processing on Nutrient Sensing and Dietary Energy Intake.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Did the sweetness of beverages change with the Chilean Food Labeling and Marketing Law? A before and after study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Finding the Sweet Spot: Measurement, Modification, and Application of Sweet Hedonics in Humans.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Article
- 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
Various global public health agencies recommend minimizing exposure to sweet-tasting foods or beverages. The underlying rationale is that reducing exposure to the perception of sweet tastes, without regard to the source of sweetness, may reduce preferences for sweetness, added sugar intake, caloric intake, and body weight. However, the veracity of this sequence of outcomes has yet to be documented, as revealed by findings from recent systematic reviews on the topic. Efforts to examine and document the effects of sweetness exposure are needed to support evidence-based recommendations. They require a generally agreed-upon methodology for measuring sweetness in foods, beverages, and the overall diet. Although well-established sensory evaluation techniques exist for individual foods in laboratory settings, they are expensive and time-consuming, and agreement on the optimal approach for measuring the sweetness of the total diet is lacking. If such a measure could be developed, it would permit researchers to combine data from different studies and populations and facilitate the design and conduct of new studies to address unresolved research questions about dietary sweetness. This narrative review includes an overview of available sensory techniques, their strengths and limitations, recent efforts to measure the sweetness of foods and diets across countries and cultures, and a proposed future direction for improving methods for measuring sweetness toward developing the data required to support evidence-based recommendations around dietary sweetness.
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