Relationships Between Food Preferences and Food Acceptance Ratings

Abstract

A study was conducted to assess relationships between food preference ratings and food acceptability ratings. Acceptability ratings for each of two discriminably different samples of nine food items were obtained using the 9‐point hedonic scale. Regression analysis indicated that no linear relationship existed between these ratings and either hedonic or frequency preference ratings of the foods. In addition, the range of acceptability ratings was smaller than the range of corresponding’preference ratings. Panelists’expressed preferences had no effect on their assignment of differential acceptance ratings to different samples of the items. Correlations between preference ratings of laboratory panelists and military field panelists were good, in spite of higher absolute preference ratings assigned by the laboratory panel.

Same genetic components underlie different measures of sweet taste preference

“…The correlation among affective ratings and use of sweet foods is in line with earlier studies (6,7,26). The scores for craving for sweet foods were correlated with liking and usefrequency of sweet foods, which further validates the use of this scale.…”

Comparison of affective rating scales and their relationship to variables reflecting food consumption

“…The corresponding curvilinear functions varied from 15.4% (PLEA vs. frUSE, Carelian pie) to 59.4% (LIKE vs. liBUY, reduced-fat cheese). Although the lower limit was low, the predictions were, on average, within the limits earlier presented in the literature (Cardello and Maller, 1982). The mean prediction was highest when likelihood of buying was predicted by liking, while the predictive equation was poorest when frequency of use was predicted either by pleasantness or liking.…”

“…A common estimate of the relationship between affective responses and variables reflecting consumption is that affection predicts 25-50% of consumption (see Cardello and Maller, 1982). Such prediction stems from correlation coefficients within the range 0.5-0.7 between the two measures.…”

Food preferences and desire to eat in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

“…Food preference has been defined by Cardello and Maller (1982) as "expressed degree of liking or disliking for a food when obtained in response to a food name." Since taste is the primary determinant of food selection (Krondl & Coleman, 1988), food preference, as defined above, is likely to be highly dependent on memories of hedonic evaluations of taste.…”