Testing taste sensitivity and aversion in very young children: development of a procedure

Visser, Janne C.; Kroeze, Jan H.A.; Kamps, Willem A.; Bijleveld, Cma

doi:10.1006/appe.1999.0306

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“…In our experience, children 5 years of age can detect diverse tastes but cannot give repeatable results: the taste perception in this age group is inherently variable over longer periods of time. 34,35 During the pretest, we found that children over 6 years of age performed discrimination tasks such as the paired comparison more reliably, which has been reported previously. 33 For this reason, we decided to restrict this test to school children.…”

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Design and results of the pretest of the IDEFICS study

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Background: During the preparatory phase of the baseline survey of the IDEFICS (Identification and prevention of dietary-and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants) study, standardised survey procedures including instruments, examinations, methods, biological sampling and software tools were developed and pretested for their feasibility, robustness and acceptability. Methods: A pretest was conducted of full survey procedures in 119 children aged 2-9 years in nine European survey centres (N per centre ¼ 4-27, mean 13.22). Novel techniques such as ultrasound measurements to assess subcutaneous fat and bone health, heart rate monitors combined with accelerometers and sensory taste perception tests were used. Results: Biological sampling, physical examinations, sensory taste perception tests, parental questionnaire and medical interview required only minor amendments, whereas physical fitness tests required major adaptations. Callipers for skinfold measurements were favoured over ultrasonography, as the latter showed only a low-to-modest agreement with calliper measurements (correlation coefficients of r ¼ À0.22 and r ¼ 0.67 for all children). The combination of accelerometers with heart rate monitors was feasible in school children only. Implementation of the computer-based 24-h dietary recall required a complex and intensive developmental stage. It was combined with the assessment of school meals, which was changed after the pretest from portion weighing to the more feasible observation of the consumed portion size per child. The inclusion of heel ultrasonometry as an indicator of bone stiffness was the most important amendment after the pretest. Discussion: Feasibility and acceptability of all procedures had to be balanced against their scientific value. Extensive pretesting, training and subsequent refinement of the methods were necessary to assess the feasibility of all instruments and procedures in routine fieldwork and to exchange or modify procedures that would otherwise give invalid or misleading results.

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“…From the year 2000 onwards, 16 studies on this subject began to be published more frequently. 6,11---14,17,18 Despite the large time lag between the moments of publication of these studies, few changes have occurred.…”

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“…One study 17 reported that the application time for the entire test was approximately 15 min; another study 11 related that the interval between the exposure of one taste sample to the subsequent taste was 20---30 s. The method of application of the solutions ranged from the application of the solution on the surface of the tongue 6 to drinking the food solution. 17 In most of the studies we analyzed, 6,11---16 the scoring process was based on the minimum threshold of detection 6,12,14---16 and discrimination 13,15,16 of concentration. For a study 11 that evaluated only the gustatory discrimination, the authors considered the presence of a ''taste disorder'' when three errors occurred after the subject was exposed to five concentrations of each taste in the evaluation; and Horn, Jusic, Sapunar, and Milanovic (1980) 15 found hypogeusia (decreased gustatory acuity) when detection or discrimination errors occurred in three concentrations of the same taste.…”

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Quantitative evaluation of taste in childhood populations: a systematic review

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et al. 2015

Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology

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“…12 Detection threshold test As a measure of taste sensitivity, we decided on the detection threshold representing the lowest value of a stimulus that must be exceeded in order for the stimulus to have any effect on the observer. 13,14 Threshold tests were arranged as a board game ( Figure 1). A row of five test solutions in order of increasing concentrations of stimuli for each assessed basic taste modality were presented to the children in small cups, having a volume of 20 ml, at the lower end of the board.…”

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Development of a method to measure sensory perception in children at the European level

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Background:The 5-year multilevel epidemiological IDEFICS (Identification and prevention of dietary-and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants) study, launched under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission, aims at counteracting the epidemic of dietary-and lifestyle-induced adverse health effects in children. To reveal possible links between overweight/obesity in childhood with taste sensitivity and taste preferences, special procedures were developed for application at the European level. This paper presents these newly developed procedures. Methods: Testing procedures to assess taste sensitivity for sucrose, sodium chloride, caffeine and monosodium glutamate and taste preferences for sweet, flavour, salty, fatty and umami tastes were developed with 191 children from nursery schools and preschools in northern Germany. To assess test-retest reliability, Cohen's kappa was calculated. Results: The study shows that it is possible to assess taste sensitivity and taste preferences even in young children, provided the framework of the procedures applied is adapted to this scenario. Test-retest reliability was calculated for the procedures applied and the results show that they are very reliable for assessing taste preferences and taste sensitivity in young children. Conclusion: It is possible to assess taste sensitivity and taste preferences even in young children, provided the methods applied are adapted to the special requirements that working with young children entail.

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Testing taste sensitivity and aversion in very young children: development of a procedure

Cited by 26 publications

References 21 publications

Design and results of the pretest of the IDEFICS study

Design and results of the pretest of the IDEFICS study

Quantitative evaluation of taste in childhood populations: a systematic review

Development of a method to measure sensory perception in children at the European level

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