The influence of food order on healthy food selection at buffets
Every day millions of people stand in line at all-you-can-to-eat buffet lines waiting to satiate their palates with the delicious foods on the line. Most of these people, however, are unaware that food order biases what ends up on their plates: the first food in line is taken the most and biases what else is taken…
November 10, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: buffet-lines, day-millions, delicious, line, nutrition, nutrition / diet, plates, taken-the-most, the-delicious, the-first
Gustatory Sensors Determine Whether Salty Foods Taste Good Or Bad
As anyone who’s ever mixed up the sugar and salt while baking knows, too much of a good thing can be inedible. What hasn’t been clear, though, is how our tongues and brains can tell when the saltiness of our food has crossed the line from yummy to yucky – or, worse, something dangerous…
June 17, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: food, good-thing, line, our-food, saltiness, the-line, the-saltiness, the-sugar, tongues
