Danielle R Reed, Amber L Alhadeff, Gary K Beauchamp, Nirupa Chaudhari, Valerie B Duffy, Monica Dus, Alfredo Fontanini, John I Glendinning, Barry G Green, Paule V Joseph, George A Kyriazis, Mark Lyte, Padma Maruvada, John P McGann, John T McLaughlin, Timothy H Moran, Claire Murphy, Emily E Noble, M Yanina Pepino, Jennifer L Pluznick, Kristina I Rother, Enrique Saez, Alan C Spector, Catia Sternini, Richard D Mattes
In November 2019, the NIH held the "Sensory Nutrition and Disease" workshop to challenge multidisciplinary researchers working at the interface of sensory science, food science, psychology, neuroscience, nutrition, and health sciences to explore how chemosensation influences dietary choice and health. This report summarizes deliberations of the workshop, as well as follow-up discussion in the wake of the current pandemic. Three topics were addressed: A) the need to optimize human chemosensory testing and assessment, B) the plasticity of chemosensory systems, and C) the interplay of chemosensory signals, cognitive signals, dietary intake, and metabolism...
December 9, 2020: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition