Understanding sweet-liking phenotypes and their implications for obesity: Narrative review and future directions

Armitage, Rhiannon M.; Iatridi, Vasiliki; Yeomans, Martin R.

doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113398

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“…Given that the studies in this report set out to test the effects of simple sensory, hedonic associations between novel visual cues and a liked sweet taste, it is surprising that the outcome points more to an incentive rather than hedonic driver of subsequent performance. However, evidence that sweet liking predicts wider overconsumption is limited [78], and although the specific sweet taste stimulus used in these experiments was selected to be liked by these participants, the experience of sweet taste might also evoke wider appetite-related memories. For that reason we included the tests of expected satiation and satiety, where we found no significant effect of the presence of the sweet cue on these expectations.…”

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Visual cues associated with sweet taste increase short-term eating and grab attention in healthy volunteers

Yeomans

Ridley-Siegert

Thanh

et al. 2021

Physiology & Behavior

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Visual cues associated with sweet taste increase short-term eating and grab attention in healthy volunteers

Yeomans

Ridley-Siegert

Thanh

et al. 2021

Physiology & Behavior

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“…Lastly, growing evidence demonstrates that hedonic responses to sweet taste differ between individuals due to sweet-liking phenotypes (12) . It was found that children can be classified as Accepted manuscript either sweet likers or sweet dislikers (6) .…”

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“…Previously, boys were found to like sweet foods more at eight to twelve years than girls (10) and genotypes at the TAS2R38 taste gene locus were associated with sucrose preference and liking of sweet-tasting foods in five-to-ten-year-old children (11) . Further, research suggests that individuals vary in their hedonic liking response to sweetness due to their phenotype (12) and that children move along a continuum between sweet likers and sweet dislikers (6) .…”

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The sweet tooth of infancy: Is sweetness exposure related to sweetness liking in infants up to 12 months of age?

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Infants become increasingly exposed to sweet-tasting foods in their first year of life. However, it is still unclear whether repeated exposure to sweet taste is linked to infants’ sweetness liking during this period. Making use of data from the OPALINE cohort, this study aimed to examine the link between sweetness exposure and sweetness liking during two important periods in early infant feeding: at the start of complementary feeding (3-6 months) and the transition to the family table (10-12 months). Infants’ sweetness exposure was assessed using seven-day food records which were completed by mothers every month (n=312), reporting daily consumption rates of formula/breast milk or complementary food and the type of formula milk and/or complementary foods for each feeding occasion. Infants’ sweetness liking was studied in the laboratory at three, six, and twelve months of age by assessing their response to a lactose-water solution and the amount drunk of this solution compared to plain water. Linear regressions and SEM assessed associations between exposure to and liking for sweetness at six and twelve months. Neither at six (n=182) nor at twelve months (n=197) was sweetness exposure associated with sweetness liking. While sweetness liking at three months was unrelated to liking at six months, the latter predicted sweetness liking at twelve months. These findings demonstrate no association between sweetness exposure at three to twelve months and liking at six and twelve months despite a sharp increase in sweetness exposure in that period. However, sweetness liking at six and twelve months was positively associated.

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“…Other researchers have found no associations [12][13][14]18,22,23 . Differences in outcome may be due in part to differences in methods used to measure sweet perception, and several recent reviews have identified a need to standardize procedures 2,11,15,[24][25][26] .…”

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Characterizing Individual Differences in Sweet Taste Hedonics: Test Methods, Locations, and Stimuli

Cheung¹,

Kramer²,

Beauchamp³

et al. 2021

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Sweetness drives consumption of added sugars, so understanding how individuals differ is important for developing strategies to lower sugar intake. However, methods to assess hedonic response to sweetness vary, making results across studies difficult to integrate. We compared methods to measure optimal sucrose concentration in 21 healthy adults (1) using paired-comparison preference tracking vs. ratings of liking, (2) with participants in the laboratory vs. at home, and (3) using aqueous solutions vs. vanilla milk. Tests were replicated on separate days to assess test-retest reliability. Test-retest reliability was similar between laboratory and home testing, but tended to be better for vanilla milk and preference tracking. Optimal sucrose concentration was virtually identical between laboratory and home, slightly lower when estimated via preference tracking, and about 50% lower in vanilla milk. However, individual optimal sucrose concentration correlated strongly between Methods, test Locations, and Stimuli. More than 50% of the variability in optimal sucrose concentration could be attributed to consistent differences among individuals while much less variability was attributable to differences in Methods, test Locations or Stimuli. These results demonstrate convergent validity between measures of preference and liking, support testing at home to lower participant burden, and suggest that aqueous solutions can be useful proxies for some commonly consumed beverages for measuring individual differences.

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Understanding sweet-liking phenotypes and their implications for obesity: Narrative review and future directions

Cited by 18 publications

References 192 publications

Visual cues associated with sweet taste increase short-term eating and grab attention in healthy volunteers

Visual cues associated with sweet taste increase short-term eating and grab attention in healthy volunteers

The sweet tooth of infancy: Is sweetness exposure related to sweetness liking in infants up to 12 months of age?

Characterizing Individual Differences in Sweet Taste Hedonics: Test Methods, Locations, and Stimuli

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