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Kusano-Tsunoh, A., Nakatsuka, H., Satoh, H., Shimizu, H., Sato, S., Ito, I., Fukao, A. and Hisamichi, S. (2001) Effects of Family-Togetherness on the Food Selection by Primary and Junior High School Students: Family-Togetherness Means Better Food. The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 194, 121-127.
https://doi.org/10.1620/tjem.194.121

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• TITLE: Eating with Familiar Friends Decreases the Electrical Taste Threshold

  AUTHORS: Shiho Tsuchida, Genki Sakauchi, Momoko Asada, Naoto Sato, Kasumi Suzuki, Misaki Kaiwa, Kenichi Shibuya, Hiromi Inaba

  KEYWORDS: Co-Eating, Taste Threshold, Familiar Person, Tastiness, Physiological Changes

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, Vol.9 No.3, March 25, 2019

  ABSTRACT: Communal eating reportedly induces changes in food-related behaviors such as increased consumption and alleviation of indefinite complaints. Here, we examined the influence of intimacy with co-eaters on the palatability of the food and the physiological taste thresholds. The study was a single-blind crossover trial with 16 healthy women aged 18 - 19 years (two close friends × 8) as participants. We examined the effect of four preset conditions with regard to taste (condition 1 = tasting alone; condition 2 = tasting with a friend; condition 3 = tasting with three unfamiliar individuals; condition 4 = tasting with a friend and two unfamiliar individuals). Electrical taste thresholds were measured pre-and post-eating. The subjective evaluation of taste did not show any significant difference between the four conditions (p > 0.05). However, the electrical taste threshold significantly decreased when eating with close friends (p