This study reports the results of 3 studies done in healthy female and male participants to test whether Sensory specific satiety (SSS) generalizes from sweet drinks to sweet foods. SSS describes a reduction in the pleasantness of the taste (momentary liking) and desire to consume a food that occurs with eating, compared with the relative preservation of liking and desire for uneaten foods. The participants were asked to either consume non-carbonated, fruit squash drinks, cola beverage sweetened with low-calorie sweeteners (LCS) or water.
The study concluded that drinks sweetened with low calorie sweetener acutely decreases desire for sweet food supporting their use in place of sugar sweetened drinks. Further studies on the effects of carbonation of appetite are required.
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