Detecting Fat Content of Food from a Distance: Olfactory-Based Fat Discrimination in Humans

Sanne Boesveldt; Johan N. Lundström

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085977

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Detecting Fat Content of Food from a Distance: Olfactory-Based Fat Discrimination in Humans

Sanne Boesveldt ,

* E-mail: Sanne.boesveldt@wur.nl

Affiliations Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Johan N. Lundström

Affiliations Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Detecting Fat Content of Food from a Distance: Olfactory-Based Fat Discrimination in Humans

Sanne Boesveldt,
Johan N. Lundström

Published: January 22, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085977

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A question about gender.

Posted by BoffinDA on 09 Mar 2014 at 09:23 GMT

While reading the experimental section of your submission I noticed that we are only given the metrics (BMI and age) for the male participants. I am curious if the data gathered from the female samples showed any differences in detection ability? If this information was in the abstract and I missed it, I apologize; your submission just has my wheels turning.

Thank you for your time.

No competing interests declared.

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A question about gender.

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