I personally take issue with this recommendation. The findings that your team has found, that humans can detect the fat content of foods, indicates to me that fat (especially fats higher in saturated fats) is a critically important nutrient for human physiology, and not something to be consciously avoided or reduced. Is it any wonder that mother's milk is greater than 50% fat (half of which is saturated fatty acids), or that fat is the most satiating macronutrient (along with protein)? I propose (with evolutionary concepts in mind) that the ability to detect fat content in food is an ancient mechanism developed to support humans' ever-increasing requirement for dietary fats due to a variety of important physiological functions (brain expansion/function would be one example) and changes in the human digestive system (the presence of the gallbladder, expansion of the small intestine, reduction in large intestine). It is the unsupported hypothesis that dietary fat (especially animal and tropical fats) contributes to weight gain and heart disease that is causing these metabolic disruptions to occur in the first place. Only recently have human societies attempted to consciously reduce their fat intake, and it is also in this time period that modern societies have experienced rapidly increasing rates of chronic metabolic dysregulation. I implore that the researchers who conducted this study reconsider their preconceived assumptions about fat and explore the anthropological and evolutionary evidence that fat (especially animal and tropical fats) is crucial to human health.