Food Preferences And Taste

Author : Helen Macbeth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782381880
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Preferences and Taste written by Helen Macbeth and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic.

Author : Helen M. Macbeth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819581
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Preferences and Taste written by Helen M. Macbeth and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of contributors present cross-disciplinary perspectives on food preferences and tastes, showing the common themes of these fundamentals of human existence. A comprehensive introduction outlines the themes and the links between them.

Author : Helen M. Macbeth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819703
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Preferences and Taste written by Helen M. Macbeth and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of contributors present cross-disciplinary perspectives on food preferences and tastes, showing the common themes of these fundamentals of human existence. A comprehensive introduction outlines the themes and the links between them.

Author : John Prescott
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861899513
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taste Matters written by John Prescott and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human tongue has somewhere up to eight thousand taste buds to inform us when something is sweet, salty, sour, or bitter—or as we usually think of it—delicious or revolting. Tastes differ from one region to the next, and no two people’s seem to be the same. But why is it that some people think maple syrup is too sweet, while others can’t get enough? What makes certain people love Roquefort cheese and others think it smells like feet? Why do some people think cilantro tastes like soap? John Prescott tackles this conundrum in Taste Matters, an absorbing exploration of why we eat and seek out the foods that we do. Prescott surveys the many factors that affect taste, including genetic inheritance, maternal diet, cultural traditions, and physiological influences. He also delves into what happens when we eat for pleasure instead of nutrition, paying particularly attention to affluent Western societies, where, he argues, people increasingly view food selection as a sensory or intellectual pleasure rather than a means of survival. As obesity and high blood pressure are on the rise along with a number of other health issues, changes in the modern diet are very much to blame, and Prescott seeks to answer the question of why and how our tastes often lead us to eat foods that are not the best for our health. Compelling and accessible, this timely book paves the way for a healthier and more sustainable understanding of taste.

Author : Jean-Pierre Montmayeur
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420067761
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fat Detection written by Jean-Pierre Montmayeur and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the State-of-the-Art in Fat Taste TransductionA bite of cheese, a few potato chips, a delectable piece of bacon - a small taste of high-fat foods often draws you back for more. But why are fatty foods so appealing? Why do we crave them? Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects covers the many factors responsible for the se

Author : B. Lyman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401170339
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Psychology of Food written by B. Lyman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing this book has been a pleasure, but it has also been frustrating. It was a delight to see that the facts of food preferences, eating, and food behavior conform in many ways to the general principles of psychology. Matching these, however, was often like putting together a jigsaw puz zle-looking at a fact and trying to figure out which psychological theories or principles were relevant. This was made more difficult by conflicting principles in psychology and contradictory findings in psychological as well as food-preference research. The material cited is not meant to be exhaustive. Undoubtedly, I have been influenced by my own research interests and points of view. When conflicting data exist, I selected those that seemed to me most representa tive or relevant, and I have done so without consistently pointing out contrary findings. This applies also to the discussion of psychological prin ciples. Much psychological research is done in very restrictive conditions. Therefore, it has limited applicability beyond the confines of the context in which it was conducted. What holds true of novelty, complexity, and curiosity when two-dimensional line drawings are studied, for example, may not have much to do with novelty, complexity, and curiosity in rela tion to foods, which vary in many ways such as shape, color, taste, texture, and odor. Nevertheless, I have tried to suggest relationships between psy chological principles and food preferences.

Author : James M. Weiffenbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taste and Development written by James M. Weiffenbach and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah E. Worth
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144817
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taste written by Sarah E. Worth and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful consideration of taste as a sense and an idea and of how we might jointly develop both. When we eat, we eat the world: taking something from outside and making it part of us. But what does it taste of? And can we develop our taste? In Taste, Sarah Worth argues that taste is a sense that needs educating, for the real pleasures of eating only come with an understanding of what one really likes. From taste as an abstract concept to real examples of food, she explores how we can learn about and develop our sense of taste through themes ranging from pleasure, authenticity, and food fraud, to visual images, recipes, and food writing.

Author : Hans-Rudolf Berthoud
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420048933
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neural and Metabolic Control of Macronutrient Intake written by Hans-Rudolf Berthoud and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-10-25 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an excessive proportion of the human energy requirement is derived from fat, the likelihood of obesity increases. Any such individual is at risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease- grave and costly health hazards. The selective control of fat ingestion is a promising solution to these concerns. Existing data suggests that macronutrient intake can be manipulated. Further research is working to create pharmacological tools that will suppress fat consumption. It will also be possible to fight obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Neural and Metabolic Control of Macronutrient Intake systematically discusses the known physiological mechanisms involved in macronutrientselection, including their molecular, genetic and neurochemical aspects. The book is also a critical review of the hypothesis that ingestion of the three nutrients is regulated by separate neural control mechanisms, leaving open the possibility that strategies could be devised to intervene in bodily control systems and alter the proportion of fat in the diet. This reference provides three types of information: First, the basic background of the biochemical and physiological systems as they relate to macronutrient selection. Second, opinions and data concerning to what degree animals and humans show evidence of macronutrient selection. And, third, evidence about how the central nervous system might be involved in the choices animals make among macronutrients.

Author : Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080147132X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Taste written by Carolyn Korsmeyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience, and they continually inspire writers and artists. Carolyn Korsmeyer explains how taste came to occupy so low a place in the hierarchy of senses and why it is deserving of greater philosophical respect and attention. Korsmeyer begins with the Greek thinkers who classified taste as an inferior, bodily sense; she then traces the parallels between notions of aesthetic and gustatory taste that were explored in the formation of modern aesthetic theories. She presents scientific views of how taste actually works and identifies multiple components of taste experiences. Turning to taste's objects—food and drink—she looks at the different meanings they convey in art and literature as well as in ordinary human life and proposes an approach to the aesthetic value of taste that recognizes the representational and expressive roles of food. Korsmeyer's consideration of art encompasses works that employ food in contexts sacred and profane, that seek to whet the appetite and to keep it at bay; her selection of literary vignettes ranges from narratives of macabre devouring to stories of communities forged by shared eating.