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Dietary customs and food availability shape the preferences for basic tastes: A cross-cultural study among Polish, Tsimane' and Hadza societies.

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The impact of diet and market availability on preference for basic tastes is demonstrated, with Tsimane' and Polish participants liked the sweet taste more than other tastes, while Hadza participants liked salty and sour tastes more than the remaining tastes.
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This article is published in Appetite.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food choice.

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Nutrition and Chronic Conditions.

TL;DR: The role of dietary interventions in the management of chronic conditions in recognition of the global increase of these diseases, the rise in the ageing population, and the significant cost to health services around the world is discussed.

Rift Valley Bibliography

TL;DR: In this article, a bibliography of the languages of the Rift Valley Area of Tanzania is presented, including Sandawe, a language with possible affinity with the so-called 'Khoisan' group, and Hadza, an isolate language isolate which is not known to be related to any other languages currently spoken.
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Consumers' Perceptions and Preferences for Bitterness in Vegetable Foods: The Case of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil and Brassicaceae-A Narrative Review.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review collected insights from literature belonging to different discipline domains in order to have a broad view of the current state-of-the-art about biochemical aspects and consumers' perceptions and preferences toward foods with an enhanced bitter taste.
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Determinants of Sweetness Preference: A Scoping Review of Human Studies.

TL;DR: The evidence appeared to support predictive capacity of greater sweetness preference for certain determinants, such as age during certain life-stages, being in a hungry versus satiated state, and heritable factors.
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Potential effects of umami ingredients on human health: Pros and cons.

TL;DR: Positive and negative effects of umami taste can improve food flavor and consumption, improve nutrition intake of the elderly and patients, protect against duodenal cancer, reduce ingestion of sodium chloride, decrease consumption of fat, and improve oral functions are categorized.
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cocor: A Comprehensive Solution for the Statistical Comparison of Correlations

TL;DR: The cocor package covers a broad range of tests including the comparisons of independent and dependent correlations with either overlapping or nonoverlapping variables, and includes an implementation of Zou’s confidence interval for all of these comparisons.
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Taste preferences and food intake

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that there are multiple links between taste perceptions, taste preferences, food preferences, and food choices and the amount of food consumed and the impact of taste factors on food intake further depends on sex and age and is modulated by obesity, eating disorders and other pathologies of eating behavior.
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Factors Influencing Food Choices of Adolescents: Findings from Focus-Group Discussions with Adolescents

TL;DR: The findings suggest that if programs to improve adolescent nutrition are to be effective, they need to address a broad range of factors, in particular environmental factors (e.g., the increased availability and promotion of appealing, convenient foods within homes schools, and restaurants).
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Local development and heritage: traditional food and cuisine as tourist attractions in rural areas

TL;DR: In this paper, the transformation and redefinition of local identity in rural France from the perspective of heritage and local rural tourism is analyzed from a theoretical perspective, where the authors examine the case of the Haut Plateau de l'Aubrac (Central France), where the local development process is closely linked to the valorization and the re-creation of gastronomic knowledge and skill.
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The problem of units and the circumstance for POMP

TL;DR: Alternative methods of scoring are evaluated against seven articulated criteria representing the information conveyed by each in an illustrative example and Converting scores to the percent of maximum possible score (POMP) is shown to provide useful additional information in many cases.
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