Girls have a better sense of taste than boys do, although they have the same number of taste buds. Boys needed 10% more sourness and 20% more sweetness than girls did in order to recognize certain flavors. Perhaps not surprisingly, boys prefer extreme flavors. They gave highest approval to the sweetest sodas and the sourest foods.
One in three children does not like sweet foods or drinks. However, 48% of the children gave their highest marks to sweets.
The ability to taste improves gradually as a child gets older. By age 13 or 14, most children prefer sweets less often.
The Danish Science Communication and the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen cooperated to perform this study.
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