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Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 December 2008 )
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Here is one more reason why girls are better than boys: a new study has found
that girls have a better sense of taste than boys do.
Recently, a large scale study was done by the Danish Science Communication and
The Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE) at University of Copenhagen in which they
looked at taste sensations of children.
Over 8,900 schoolchildren from Denmark were used in the “mass experiment” study
where each of the children were supplied with a kit of taster samples along with
instructions. This study was quite different because it was conducted as part of
the children’s natural science classes.
The tests were designed to recognize the ability of the children to discover
sweet and sour tastes and to find out what they prefer when each sensation
varied in intensity. The study also had the children finding out how many taste
buds they had as well as filling out questionnaires about their eating habits.
“It is quite clear that children and young people are very good tasters, and
that there are bigger variations between them than most people would expect.
There is, for example, a marked difference between boys and girls, and the
ability of children to recognize tastes changes with age. So one could easily
develop more varied food products and snacks for children and young people. For
example, it is quite clear that children do not necessarily prefer sweet things.
According to the findings, healthy snacks could easily be developed for boys
with slightly extreme and sour flavours,” says Bodil Allesen-Holm, MSc in Food
Science and Technology and head of the study.
Their findings showed that girls recognize taste much
better than boys. They also found that boys need about 10 percent more
sourness and 20 percent more sweetness to be able to recognize the taste of
something.
“We also asked the pupils to count ‘taste buds’ or organs of taste on the
tongue. However, the experiment showed that boys and girls have largely the same
number of taste buds. So it would appear that what makes the difference is
the way in which boys and girls process taste impressions,” says Michael Bom
Frøst, Associate Professor at the Department of Food Science at LIFE.
Surprisingly, the study also showed that boys have a sweeter
tooth than girls, and about 70 percent of all the children like the taste
of fish.
While this study focused on taste alone, more testing could eventually include
the other sensations such as sight and smell.
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