Bawajeeh, A orcid.org/0000-0001-6415-8139, Zulyniak, MA orcid.org/0000-0003-4944-5521, Evans, CEL orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-4397 et al. (1 more author) (2022) Characterizing Adolescents' Dietary Intake by Taste: Results From the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey. Frontiers in Nutrition, 9. 893643. ISSN 2296-861X
Abstract
The taste of foods is a key factor for adolescents' food choices and intakes, yet, exploring taste characteristics of adolescents' diet is limited. Using food records for 284 adolescents (10–19 years old) from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), year 9 (2016–2017), we classified diets according to taste. Tastes for each food consumed were generated from a previous survey that asked participants to allocate one main taste to each food. Responses from that survey were processed and included in a Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) to identify taste clusters. The resulting tastes were then applied to the adolescents' food records in the NDNS. For each individual, the total weight of food per day for each taste was calculated. A linear regression model was used to explore dietary intakes from each taste. Findings reveal that adolescents' daily energy intake was highest (34%) from foods that taste sweet. Sweet foods were the main calorie contributors at breakfast and daytime snacking, while energy intake from neutral-tasting foods was higher at lunch and dinner. Sweet food intake was significantly positively associated with higher energy, sugar, and fat intakes. For each percentage increase in sweet foods, energy increased by 10 kcal/d (95% CI 6, 15; P < 0.01). Savory food intake was lower in carbohydrates and sugars; with neutral food consumption inversely associated with energy, carbohydrate, sugars, saturated and total fat. Higher salty food intake was linked to higher saturated fat as well as sodium consumption. Sweet and neutral foods dominate the UK adolescent diet, followed by savory tastes. Balancing the contributions of different tasting foods could assist in improving adolescent diet quality.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Bawajeeh, Zulyniak, Evans and Cade. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
Keywords: | taste, dietary taste, NDNS, adolescents, taste perception |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Food Science and Nutrition (Leeds) > FSN Nutrition and Public Health (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2022 15:17 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2022 15:17 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Frontiers Media |
Identification Number: | 10.3389/fnut.2022.893643 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188199 |