Feeding habits and their physiological determinants. Relationships between consumer's preference for sweetness of...

Investigations determining the preferred saccharose concentration in drinks (CP(S)), gustatory threshold values, blood glucose level, basal metabolism rate and body weight index (im) were carried out with 83 cadets, aged 21--23 years. CP(S) was directly proportional to the gustatory threshold for sweet tastee, blood glucose level and basal metabolism and the correlation found in all three cases was statistically significant (p less than 0.01). The accuracy of CP(S) estimation by cadets was strictly related to their threshold difference for sweet tast depending also on smoking.