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- As global population ageing accelerates in the coming decades, maintaining taste sensations and sensitivity in older adults will be a key measure to ensuring quality of health and life.
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Many older adults experience a loss of taste and no longer enjoy the foods they once loved. Depending on the underlying cause, a doctor may be able to suggest treatment options and methods of coping with this problem.
- Marlo Sollitto
Jan 15, 2021 · The decline in the sense of smell with aging [26, 31, 32] is likely to exert a more pronounced detrimental effect on multisensory flavour perception than any loss of taste (gustation), given figures suggesting that as much as 75–95% of what we think we taste, we actually smell [33].
- Charles Spence, Jozef Youssef
- 10.3390/foods10010168
- 2021
- Foods. 2021 Jan; 10(1): 168.
Aug 13, 2012 · Sixteen out of twenty-five studies reported perception of taste intensity at supra-threshold levels to be significantly lower for older adults. However, six out of nine studies concerning sucrose found perceived intensity of sweet taste not to diminish with age.
- Lisa Methven, Victoria J. Allen, Caroline A. Withers, Margot A. Gosney
- 2012
Jan 27, 2022 · The data from older adults gave us the opportunity to evaluate age-related effects on oral sensitivity, taste, and smell function and their interdependence.
Jun 26, 2021 · Olfaction appears to shape food choice and intake, whereas taste has an important role as a macro-nutrient sensing system (Boesveldt & de Graaf, 2017). Given the importance of olfaction for eating behavior, its impairment may be accompanied by impact on food intake and health.
Jan 27, 2022 · Our data show a significant deterioration of oral sensitivity, taste (which did not differ between different taste qualities), and smell in older adults. A significant association of the smell function and the sensory threshold was moderated by age in the older group but not in the younger group.
Mar 2, 2017 · This review focused on the reported causes and correlates of taste decline in older adults, with the aim to consolidating existing evidence and identifying gaps and limitations. Using a scoping review methodology, we sought relevant literature from the last 20 years.
