Palatable food consumption brings us happiness and offers a longer-lasting sense of
pleasure compared to other forms of enjoyment, even as we age older (Brillat-Savarin …

Food oral processing (FOP) is a fast-emerging research area in the food science discipline.
Since its first introduction about a decade ago, a large amount of literature has been …

Objectives: To give an overview of the evidence on the associations between oral condition
factors and masticatory performance of adults, and to evaluate the direction and level of the …

Masticatory function such as chewing is expected to modify human cognitive function, and/or
the possibility of improving cognitive function is also predicted. This systematic review …

Food oral mastication is a highly complicated dynamic process which involves multiple
sequential or simultaneous operations. Ethical complication and technical difficulties for oral …

Background Masticatory function declines with age or disease, implicating a poor chewing
efficiency and an often‐unconscious change for a less healthy, yet easy to chew diet. Timely …

The individual inclination to lead an autonomous life until death is associated with
requirements that may be of physiological, psychosocial and environmental nature. We aim …

The study aimed to evaluate the hypothesis that chewing is a mechanical and physiological
contributor to swallowing, physiologic/pathologic processes of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) …

Purpose: Maintaining good masticatory function from a young age promotes lifelong health,
yet limited studies have explored masticatory performance in young individuals. We …

Objectives To assess the sociomedical and oral factors affecting masticatory performance in
a community-dwelling older population. Materials and methods Community-dwelling …