Relationship between taste thresholds and hunger under debate.

Patrick Pasquet, Marie-Odile Monneuse, Bruno Simmen, André Marez, Claude-Marcel Hladik

Journal: Appetite 2006;46(1):63-6

PMID: 16298017

Abstract

We determined taste recognition thresholds for six compounds (sucrose, fructose, sodium chloride, quinine sulphate, PROP and liquorice) in fasting students and, in the same subjects, after a meal. The testing procedure was the staircase-method in blind conditions. Although taste sensitivity may vary with hormonal status, our results did not show any significant difference in taste recognition thresholds between hunger and satiety. Our Bayesian analysis did not corroborate the hypothesis of increased sensitivity to nutrition-related tastants in the fasting state that was recently supported by data obtained with the two-alternative forced-choice method.

Address: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5145: Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, Musée de l'Homme, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, France. [email protected]

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2005.09.004

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MeSH Terms: Adult, Bayes Theorem, Cross-Over Studies, Fasting, Female, Humans, Hunger, Male, Satiation, Stimulation, Chemical, Taste, Taste Threshold, Time Factors