Olfactory perception relates to food neophobia in adolescence

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Beitragende

  • Agnieszka Sorokowska - , Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Autor:in)
  • Dominika Chabin - , Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Autor:in)
  • Thomas Hummel - , Klinik und Poliklinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Maciej Karwowski - , Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Autor:in)

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Food neophobia is a rejection or avoidance of novel food products. Despite the adaptive importance of this behavior, it exerts a negative influence on dietary habits and preferences. Sensory sensitivity relates to food neophobia and among specific sensory modalities, olfaction seems to be an obvious candidate for a correlate of this behavior as odor perception largely affects food intake and enjoyment. However, research on olfactory perception and food neophobia is scarce, and despite some promising results, the full picture of their association still awaits discovery. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between food neophobia and olfaction in adolescents, a group that has not been included in the previous studies investigating this association.

METHODS: We tested the olfactory perception-food neophobia relationship in 510 adolescents 15 to 17 y of age using a food neophobia questionnaire, a psychophysical odor identification test, a self-assessment of odor sensitivity, an odor significance questionnaire, and through odor pleasantness assessments.

RESULTS: We observed significant correlations between food neophobia and all included measures of olfactory perception.

CONCLUSION: The overall regression model suggested that self-assessed sensitivity and odor awareness were the most influential, olfaction-related predictors of food neophobia in adolescents.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer111618
Fachzeitschrift Nutrition : the international journal of applied and basic nutritional sciences
Jahrgang2022
Ausgabenummer98
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juni 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 85127071571
unpaywall 10.1016/j.nut.2022.111618
Mendeley b91bd3f1-6883-3b76-ac76-01592995ff41
ORCID /0000-0001-9713-0183/work/146645240

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Schlagwörter

  • Adolescent, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, Feeding Behavior, Food Preferences, Humans, Olfactory Perception, Surveys and Questionnaires, Odor awareness, Adolescence, Sensory sensitivity, Food neophobia, Olfaction

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