The discovery of taste and nutrient receptors (chemosensors) in the gut has led to intensive
research on their functions. Whereas oral sugar, fat, and umami taste receptors stimulate …

When it comes to food, one tempting substance is sugar. Although sweetness is detected by
the tongue, the desire to consume sugar arises from the gut. Even when sweet taste is …

In the last few years, the concept of 'food addiction'has continued to gain popularity, with
human and animal studies demonstrating the differential effects of foods that are high in fat …

Multiple hormonal and neural signals are generated by ingested nutrients that limit meal
size and suppress postmeal eating. However, the availability of sugar-rich and fat-rich foods …

The communication between the gut and brain is crucial for regulating various essential
physiological functions, such as energy balance, fluid homeostasis, immune response, and …

Precision livestock production (PLP) is the augmentation of precision agriculture (PA)
concepts to include all components of agroecosystems, particularly animals and plant …

The establishment of food preferences and aversions determines the modulation of eating
behaviour and the optimization of food intake. These phenomena rely on the learning and …

Although widely assumed to have only satiating actions, nutrients in the gut can also
condition increases in intake in some cases. Here we studied the time course of post-oral …

The present study determined if mice, like rats, differ in their flavor conditioning responses to
intragastric (IG) infusions of three common monosaccharide sugars. In Experiment 1 …

Flavor evaluation is influenced by learning from experience with foods. One main influence
is flavor-nutrient learning (FNL), a Pavlovian process whereby a flavor acts as a conditioned …