Sweetness

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The Nature and Taste of Sweetness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Chemical Aspects of Sweetness

      • Gordon G. Birch

      Pages 3-13

   3. Neurophysiological Aspects of Sweetness

      • Thomas R. Scott, Barbara K. Giza

      Pages 15-32

   4. Is Sweetness Unitary? An Evaluation of the Evidence for Multiple Sweets

      • Linda M. Bartoshuk

      Pages 33-47

   5. Selected Factors Influencing Sensory Perception of Sweetness

      • R. M. Pangborn

      Pages 49-66

   6. Sensory Sweetness Perception, Its Pleasantness, and Attitudes to Sweet Foods

      • Jan E. R. Frijters

      Pages 67-80

3. The Social Context of Sweetness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Attitudes Towards Sugar and Sweetness in Historical and Social Perspective

      • Claude Fischler

      Pages 83-98

   3. Sweetness, Sensuality, Sin, Safety, and Socialization: Some Speculations

      • Paul Rozin

      Pages 99-111

4. Inborn and Acquired Aspects of Sweetness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Opioids, Sweets and a Mechanism for Positive Affect: Broad Motivational Implications

      • Elliott M. Blass

      Pages 115-126

   3. Development of Sweet Taste

      • Gary K. Beauchamp, Beverly J. Cowart

      Pages 127-140

5. Sweetness and Food Intake

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Sweetness and Food Selection: Measurement of Sweeteners’ Effects on Acceptance

      • D. A. Booth, M. T. Conner, S. Marie

      Pages 143-160

   3. Sweetness and Satiety

      • Barbara J. Rolls

      Pages 161-173

6. Sweetness and Obesity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Sweetness and Obesity

      • Adam Drewnowski

      Pages 177-192

   3. Sweetness and Eating Disorders

      • Judith Rodin, Danielle Reed

      Pages 193-204

   4. Sweetness and Performance

      • Edward Hirsch

      Pages 205-224

Very few books, especially when written by many authors, have passed through any serious process of peer review. That this one has done so is due to the special way in which it was produced. All eighteen authors were asked to submit chapters which were then circulated to each of the others. Everyone was asked to write considered Commentaries on each chapter, with references where necessary, and these too were circulated to all the other authors. The purpose of the Commentaries was to be constructively critical and, where appropriate, to highlight areas of difference rather than to reach a consensus. Research workers, of course, always strive to reach a common truth in the end, but in the process their findings and ideas pass through a seemingly interminable period of discussion and argument; and during this time their enthusiasm is sharpened by the constructive cut-and-thrust of lively debate. Progress, indeed, comes as much from open discussion as from new discovery. New ideas and new results are regularly dipped in the acid of other people's opinions and findings, so that what remains is refined and likely to be reliably contributory. Our book is meant to be a contribution to that process.

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• Department of Child Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  John Dobbing

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