title: Associations between the ability to detect a bitter taste, dietary behavior, and growth: a preliminary report.
abstract: Information from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) has been used to assess the relationships between the 10-year-old child's response to a bitter taste test using PROP, features of early childhood feeding characteristics and 10-year-old height, weight, and body mass index. Children who were tasters (75% of sample) were slightly more likely to have been described as fussy eaters than the nontasters, and the supertasters were more likely to be in the lowest height decile at age 10.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. jean.golding@bristol.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Golding
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Steer
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Emmett
authors.forename: Linda M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Bartoshuk
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Horwood
authors.forename: George Davey
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004032:Diet; D005518:Food Preferences; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D013649:Taste