Now a team Kiwi scientists have begun a new study that aims to pinpoint a "sensory fingerprint" behind the urge to eat for pleasure. It wasn't always this way, said Dr Mei Peng, of Otago University's Department of Food Science. "Our tantalising new findings suggest that we each have a unique sensory fingerprint that portrays a person's relative sensitivities across senses." The project would combine experimental psychology, food sensory research and neuro-imaging techniques to test the relationships between sensory fingerprints and hedonic eating behaviour, using a large sample of study participants. The second Auckland University Health Food Environment Policy Index, published in 2017, saw the country score poorly on about half of the food policy indicators used to measure the policy changes needed to tackle the problem.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 31, 2017 23:26 UTC