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| Flavor enhancement of food improves dietary intake and nutritional status of elderly nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Marie-Françoise A M Mathey, Els Siebelink, Cees de Graaf |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 56A, no 4, April 2001 |
| Pages | pp M200-M205 |
| Keywords | Smell [sense] loss ; Taste loss ; Nutrition ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Taste and smell losses occur with age. These changes may decrease the enjoyment of food, and may subsequently reduce food consumption and negatively influence older people's nutritional status. This study's objective was to determine whether the addition of flavour enhancers to cooked meals for residents of a Wageningen, Netherlands nursing home promotes food consumption and provides nutritional benefits. Over a 16-week period, a group of 36 had flavour enhancers sprinkled over their cooked meals, while a control group of 31 did not. Measurements of intake of cooked meals were taken before, and after 8 and 16 weeks. On average, body weight of the "flavour group" increased compared with that of the control group. Daily dietary intake decreased in the control group, but not in the flavour group. Intake of the cooked meal increased in the flavour group, but not the control group. A similar trend was observed for hunger feelings, which increased only in the flavour group. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010515201 A |
| Classmark | BLR: BLT: CF: KX: LHB: 76H |
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