Study: Eating while standing increases stress, mutes taste buds

Through this chain reaction, your sensory sensitivity reduces, which impacts food and beverage taste evaluation, food temperature perception and overall consumption volume. Even minor discomfort can make 'tasty' food not pleasant to the palate, noted the study.

For the study, 350 participants were made to rate the tastiness of a pita chip. Those who were standing gave it a less favourable rating than those who were sitting in a padded chair.

They expanded the study by inducing additional stress and asked participants to try fruit snacks while carrying a shopping bag. Both sitting and standing participants reported the additional weight made the food item taste even worse.

Source: food.ndtv.com

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