AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: Taste perception and eating behavior
Project Objective: The overall objective of this multidisciplinary research is to determine how individual taste perception influences liking/disliking and eating behaviour of healthy foods in children and adults
Project Duration and Timing: Several years
Project Funding: Academy of Finland, different foundations
Project Partners: Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, Turku Institute for Child and Youth Research, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Dentistry, Monell Chemical Senses Center, University of Gothenburg, Technical University of Munich
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Academy Research fellow Adjunct Professor Mari Sandell
This discovery has encouraged a novel
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collaboration with Academy research fellow Dr. Mari Sandell, a deputy director of the Functional Foods Forum. Sandell is also Team Leader of the eponymous Sandell Lab, which conducts research into sensory perception of food and its impact on eating
made early enough, these interactions can be purposefully modified”. Sandell’s research seeks to explain the
dynamic variability between chemosensory perceptions. These include taste, smell and chemesthesis (the chemical sensibilities of the skin and other
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strand of Salminen’s research, however, also suggests links between microbiota and child development.
“Through our
experiments, we’ve illustrated that specific probiotics can influence weight gain in early childhood. These can be administered directly to a mother, or supplied as additives that can be blended with breast milk. Later in childhood, it is possible to mix them with formula or the normal food of the child.”
behaviours. “A major reason for collaborating is to obtain a more holistic understanding of how bacteria themselves are influenced by genetic background and food choices,” explains Salminen. “Mari and I both contend that environmental factors play a significant part in the formation of dietary habits in children, and therefore on the types of microbiota they develop. From a medicinal perspective, we anticipate that, if an intervention can be
“Eating well is indisputably important, but specific perceptual differences mean that this can sometimes prove challenging”
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