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Addition Of Sauce Enhances Finger-Snack Intake Among Japanese Elderly People With Dementia.

Atsushi KimuraKohei YamaguchiHaruka ToharaYusuke SatoNaoko SawadaYasuhide NakagawaYukako MatsudaMotoharu InoueKazuhiro Tamaki
Published in: Clinical interventions in aging (2019)
These findings imply that low-level sensory factors such as flavor and a semi-solid nature contribute relatively more strongly to the enhancement of food consumption with the addition of sauce than do high-level cognitive factors such as memory stimulation and familiarity, because Japanese elderly people are not always familiar with the custom of wiping up the sauce with food.
Keyphrases
  • human health
  • middle aged
  • physical activity
  • body mass index