The Effect of Taste Sense in Obesity: Fat Taste Sensation

Abstract

Recently, the consumption of ready to eat foods has greatly increased and with the life style it has become extremely easy to reach them with a lot of sensory attractiveness. Mainly, fat, is responsible for the sensory attractiveness of ready to eat foods. Changes in eating habits have an important role in obesity, such as increased consumption of ready-to-eat foods cause increase in fatty acid threshold and fat taste desensitization. However, the fat taste sensation is not defined as five basic taste, it is now recently recognized as fat taste and also it has effect on appetite and food choice mechanisms. In order to prevent and treat obesity the importance of fat taste sensation is increasing. This review was planned to examine the effect of fat taste sensation on obesity.