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- These findings suggest that the addition of both seasoning and sauce to an older person's meal can result in comparable increases in energy, protein and fat intake. Effects support a role for flavour in increasing food intake in older individuals.
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Nov 17, 2021 · Adding flavours can encourage food intake in older adults for health benefits. The use and attitudes of 22 community-dwelling UK older adults (15 females, aged 65–83 years) towards foods and products that add flavour, e.g., sauces and seasonings, were investigated.
- Annie Thomas, Charlotte Boobyer, Zara Borgonha, Emmy van den Heuvel, Katherine M Appleton
- 2021
A reduction in sensory perception is commonly noted in older adults, and is known to decrease appetite, and in turn may cause decreased dietary intake and undernutrition . A diminished perception of taste in the elderly can lead to an increased preference for specific tastes in some, but not in all, cases ( 2 , 47 ).
Jan 12, 2019 · The British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) also recommends a “food first” approach , and it has been shown that enriching foods with known foods (e.g., cream or cheese) and adding known tastes and flavours can increase food intake in older adults [12,13,14,15,18].
- Emmy van den Heuvel, Annie Newbury, Katherine M. Appleton
- 2019
Jan 15, 2021 · It also plays an important role in our ability to experience the taste and flavour of food too [54,55]. Importantly, salivary function has been reported to decline with increasing age and hence this will also interfere with multisensory flavour perception in the elderly (see [56,57,58,59,60,61]).
- Charles Spence, Jozef Youssef
- 10.3390/foods10010168
- 2021
- Foods. 2021 Jan; 10(1): 168.
Nov 17, 2021 · Adding flavours can encourage food intake in older adults for health benefits. The use and attitudes of 22 community-dwelling UK older adults (15 females, aged 65–83 years)...
Research has shown some support for the use of flavour enhancers or flavoursome foods as a tool for increasing nutritional intake in older individuals. In this study, seasonings and sauces were added to an older person's meal to investigate and compare effects on food consumption.
Apr 1, 2015 · Our objective was therefore to study the influence of flavour enhancement on food liking and then on food intake in older adults with different degrees of cognitive impairments.
