title: Does Consuming Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners Change Taste Preferences?
abstract: Americans consume 22.3 teaspoons of added caloric sweeteners a day. Sweeteners range from 180 to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar. In summer 2014, 20 people from Kaiser Permanente California facilities cut out all added sugars and artificial sweeteners for 2 weeks: 95% of participants found that sweet foods and drinks tasted sweeter or too sweet, 75% found that other foods tasted sweeter, and 95% said moving forward they would use less or even no sugar. Additionally, 86.6% of participants stopped craving sugar after 6 days.
authors.affiliation: Senior Consultant for Regional Health Education for the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. carole.a.bartolotto@kp.org.
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bartolotto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000009:adverse effects*; D019422:Dietary Sucrose / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013549:Sweetening Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates; D019422:Dietary Sucrose; D013549:Sweetening Agents