Development and Validation of a Rapid Test for Individual Differences in Sweet Liking

甜食喜好个体差异快速测试的开发和验证

• 批准号: 10537651
• 负责人: May Meiyu Cheung
• 金额: $ 6.76万
• 依托单位: MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-12-31 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10537651
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Agreement; Beverages; Calories; Chronic Disease; Collection; Complement; Consumption; Data; Data Collection; Data Set; Development; Diet; Dietary Practices; Dietary Sugars; Eating; Fatty acid glycerol esters; Food; Food Supply; Foundations; Frequencies; Goals; Health; Home; Individual; Individual Differences; Intake; Linear Regressions; Measurement; Measures; Methods; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; Nutrient; Nutritional Science; Obesity; Paired Comparison; Participant; Pattern; Perception; Persons; Population; Population Study; Process; Proxy; Psychophysics; Public Health; Public Policy; Publishing; Questionnaires; Research Personnel; Sampling; Sensory; Smell Perception; Sodium; Sodium Chloride; Stimulus; Sucrose; Surveys; Sweetening Agents; Taste Perception; Techniques; Test Result; Testing; Time; Training; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Validation; Visual; Work; analog; base; cost; dietary; hedonic; large scale data; nutrition; pleasure; preference; rapid test; remote grading; response; skills; sound; sugar; sweetened beverage; theories; time use; tool; trait

Project Summary Overconsumption of sugar is associated with obesity and related chronic disease, which in turn cost ~300,000 lives and ~$546 billion annually in the United States alone. Leading health agencies recommend reducing intake of added sugars, but pleasure (hedonics) from sweetness may hinder the effort to achieve this goal. People might acclimate to reduced sugar in the food supply over time, analogous to shifts toward preference for lower levels of salt that occur after reducing sodium intake, but this hypothesis remains untested. Because hedonic response drives consumption, collecting large-scale data to understand individual differences in sweet hedonics on a population level is a critical step in guiding public policy. To facilitate population-based studies, I will first determine whether two widely used but time- and labor-intensive psychophysical sensory tests do in fact measure the same individual differences in sweet hedonics (sub-aim 1). One test asks participants to compare pairs of sugar solutions that differ in concentration and decide which solution they prefer. The other test is based on subjective ratings of liking for sugar solutions of varying concentrations. Participants will be a representative sample of healthy, US adults (n = 111). The data will not only determine agreement between the two approaches to measure individual sweet hedonic patterns but also will be used to evaluate several brief tests (potential proxies for the more time-consuming tests), including the Simple Sweet test, as candidates for use in the field or in participants’ homes to facilitate large-scale studies (sub-aim 2). For example, a briefer, valid test will facilitate data collection to examine population-level shifts in sweet hedonic response accompanying general reductions in sugar in processed foods and sweetened beverages. In addition, I will explore the relationship between sweet hedonic response and overall diet quality, especially sugar consumption (exploratory aim). The proposed work will advance our conceptual understanding of measurement of sweet hedonic response by confirming that common tests measure a single underlying trait. Furthermore, it will explore the relationship between sweet hedonics and diet quality using methods robust against misreporting. My study will also facilitate collection of data on hedonic response by validating more efficient tests, thereby supporting the NIDCD goal of Developing Tools to Measure Taste and Smell Function. As a postdoctoral trainee, this project will provide me with the foundation in the theory and practice of measuring hedonic response, a skill set that can be applied to other nutrients of concern for obesity and public health, including salt and fat. These skills will complement my expertise in nutrition science and prepare me to become a leading researcher in the field of sensory nutrition, with the long-term goal of facilitating public health through enhanced understanding of how diet and perception interact to drive food choice.

项目摘要 糖的过度消费与肥胖和相关慢性疾病有关，而慢性疾病又花费了约30万 仅在美国，生活每年约5460亿美元。领先的卫生机构建议减少 摄入添加的糖，但甜蜜的愉悦（享乐）可能会阻碍实现这一目标的努力。 人们可能会随着时间的流逝而适应食物供应中的糖分，类似于向偏好转变 对于减少钠摄入量后发生的较低水平的盐，但该假设仍未测试。因为 享乐响应驱动消费，收集大规模数据以了解甜蜜的个体差异 人口层面上的享乐者是指导公共政策的关键一步。为了促进基于人群的研究，我 将首先确定是否在 事实测量甜享乐主义的同一个体差异（Sub-aim 1）。一项测试要求参与者 比较浓度不同的糖解决方案对，并确定他们喜欢哪种溶液。另一个 测试基于对不同浓度的糖溶液的主观评分。参与者将是 美国成年人的健康样本（n = 111）。数据不仅将确定 测量单个甜享乐模式的两种方法，但也将用于评估几种 简短测试（更耗时的测试的潜在代理），包括简单的甜味测试， 候选人在该领域或参与者的家中使用，以促进大规模研究（Sub-aim 2）。为了 例如，一个简短的有效测试将促进数据收集，以检查甜享乐中的人群级别的变化 反应涉及加工食品和甜味卧室中的糖的一般减少。在 此外，我将探索甜享乐反应与整体饮食质量之间的关系，尤其是 糖消耗（探索目的）。拟议的工作将提高我们对 通过确认常见测试测量单个潜在特征来测量甜享乐反应。 此外，它将使用强大的方法探索甜享乐和饮食质量之间的关系 反对失误。我的研究还将通过验证更多 有效的测试，从而支持NIDCD的目标，即开发工具来测量口味和气味功能。 作为博士后学员，这个项目将为我提供理论和实践的基础 衡量享乐主义反应，该技能集可以应用于其他关注肥胖和公众关注的营养 健康，包括盐和脂肪。这些技能将完成我在营养科学方面的专业知识，并为我做好准备 成为感官营养领域的主要研究人员，其长期目标是促进公共卫生 通过增强对饮食和感知如何相互作用以推动食物选择的理解。

项目成果

Understanding the Determinants of Sweet Liking in the African and East Asian Ancestry Groups in the U.S. - A Study Protocol.

了解美国非洲和东亚血统群体喜欢甜食的决定因素 - 研究方案。

• DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3644422/v1
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Research square
• 作者: Cheung,MayM;Hubert,PatriceA;Reed,DanielleR;Pouget,EnriqueR;Jiang,Xinyin;Hwang,Liang-Dar
• 通讯作者: Hwang,Liang-Dar