Taste and smell play a key role in our ability to perceive foods. Overconsumption of highly
palatable energy-dense foods can lead to increased caloric intake and obesity. Thus there is …

Western diets rich in fat and sugar promote excess calorie intake and weight gain; however,
the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Despite a well-documented association between …

The intention to send a crewed mission to Mars involves a huge amount of planning to
ensure a safe and successful mission. Providing adequate amounts of food for the crew is a …

Obesity results from a temporary or prolonged positive energy balance due to an alteration
in the homeostatic feedback of energy balance. Food, with its discriminative and hedonic …

Recent advances in the field of taste physiology have clarified the role of different basic taste
modalities and their implications in health and disease and proposed emphatically that there …

There are numerous and diverse factors enabling the overconsumption of foods, with the
sense of taste being one of these factors. There are four well established basic tastes: sweet …

Individuals vary in their ability to taste, and some individuals are more sensitive to certain
tastes than others. Taste sensitivity is a predictor of various factors, such as diet, eating …

During the last couples of years, a number of studies have increasingly accumulated on the
gustatory perception of dietary fatty acids in rodent models and human beings in health and …

G protein-coupled receptor 84 (GPR84), a member of the highly conserved rhodopsin-like
superfamily, represents a promising target for therapeutic drug development. Its distinctive …

Highlights•Food liking, choices and intake are influenced by many factors, including
genetics.•The human repertoire of taste, odor and chemesthetic receptors has much …