Ramirez I
Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308.
Appetite. 1990 Jun;14(3):159-61. doi: 10.1016/0195-6663(90)90081-i.
The word palatability and related words have not been used in a consistent way. Palatability may be a property of a food, of the organism eating the food, or both. Investigators have failed to distinguish different possible meanings of the statement: "palatable foods increase intake". This may indicate: (1) a simple observation that some foods stimulate more intake than others, (2) an innate response to the taste of foods that alters appetite, (3) a correlate of food intake that does not itself affect intake, and (4) a link in a causal chain involving prior associations between foods and their postingestive consequences.
“适口性”这个词以及相关词汇的使用方式并不一致。适口性可能是食物的一种属性，是食用该食物的生物体的一种属性，或者是两者兼而有之。研究人员未能区分“适口性食物会增加摄入量”这一表述的不同可能含义。这可能意味着：（1）一种简单的观察，即某些食物比其他食物刺激更多的摄入量；（2）对改变食欲的食物味道的一种先天反应；（3）食物摄入量的一种相关因素，其本身并不影响摄入量；（4）因果链中的一个环节，涉及食物与其摄入后后果之间的先前关联。
