1st Edition

Fat Detection Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects

644 Pages 12 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

643 Pages
by CRC Press

Presents the State-of-the-Art in Fat Taste Transduction A 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 sensory appeal of foods rich in fat. This... Read more

IMPORTANCE OF DIETARY FAT

Evolutionary Perspectives on Fat Ingestion and Metabolism in Humans, William R. Leonard, J. Josh Snodgrass, and Marcia L. Robertson

Pathophysiology and Evolutionary Aspects of Dietary Fats and Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids across the Life Cycle, Frits A.J. Muskiet

TASTE OF FAT: FROM DETECTION TO BEHAVIOR

Gustatory Mechanisms for Fat Detection, Timothy A. Gilbertson, Tian Yu, and Bhavik P. Shah

Role of the Gustatory System in Fatty Acid Detection in Rats, David W. Pittman

Peripheral Gustatory Processing of Free Fatty Acids, Jennifer M. Stratford and Robert J. Contreras

Orosensory Factors in Fat Detection, James C. Smith

Fat Taste in Humans: Is It a Primary? Richard D. Mattes

NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF DIETARY FAT STIMULI

Neural Representation of Fat Texture in the Mouth, Edmund T. Rolls

Advantageous Object Recognition for High-Fat Food Images, Ulrike Toepel, Jean-François Knebel, Julie Hudry, Johannes le Coutre, and Micah M. Murray

SENSORY APPEAL OF THE FAT-RICH DIET

Preference for High-Fat Food in Animals, Yasuko Manabe, Shigenobu Matsumura, and Tohru Fushiki

Human Perceptions and Preferences for Fat-Rich Foods, Adam Drewnowski and Eva Almiron-Roig

CONTROL OF FOOD INTAKE AS A FUNCTION OF FAT

Oral and Postoral Determinants of Dietary Fat Appetite, Karen Ackroff and Anthony Sclafani

Control of Fat Intake by Striatal Opioids, Brian A. Baldo, Wayne E. Pratt, and Ann E. Kelley

Fat-Rich Food Palatability and Appetite Regulation, Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson

Fats and Satiety, Rania Abou Samra

GENETIC FACTORS INFLUENCING FAT PREFERENCE AND METABOLISM

Heritable Variation in Fat Preference, Danielle R. Reed

Dietary, Physiological, and Genetic Impacts on Postprandial Lipid Metabolism, José Lopez-Miranda and Carmen Marin

LIPIDS AND DISEASE

Control of Fatty Acid Intake and the Role of Essential Fatty Acids in Cognitive Function and Neurological Disorders, Kiran S. Panickar and Sam J. Bhathena

What Is the Link between Docosahexaenoic Acid, Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer’s Disease in the Elderly? Michel E. Bégin, Mélanie Plourde, Fabien Pifferi, and Stephen C. Cunnane

Hypothalamic Fatty Acid Sensing in the Normal and Disease States, Madhu Chari, Carol K.L. Lam, and Tony K.T. Lam

Dietary Fat and Carbohydrate Composition: Metabolic Disease, Marc A. Brown, Len H. Storlien, Xu-Feng Huang, Linda C. Tapsell, Paul L. Else, Janine A. Higgins, and Ian L. Brown

Food Intake and Obesity: The Case of Fat, Jennifer T. Smilowitz, J. Bruce German, and Angela M. Zivkovic

Index

Biography

Jean-Pierre Montmayeur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Dijon, FRANCE

Johannes le Coutre, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND