Preferences for Sweet and Salty in 9- to 15-Year-Old and Adult Humans
- 14 November 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 190 (4215) , 686-687
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1188365
Abstract
Preferences for the tastes of sucrose, lactose, and sodium chloride were measured in 618 subjects between 9 and 15 years of age and in 140 adults. The younger subjects preferred greater sweetness and saltiness than did the adults. In the younger groups, there were race and sex differences in preferences, none of which appeared among the adults.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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