the focus in all these studies was mainly on unravelling the underlying mechanisms with the aim of being able to develop and/or design foods that promote earlier satiation and/ or a longer satiety response.
However,with regard to the senior population at large and their increased risk of developing malnutrition at some point, two additional research questions come to mind.
Firstly, do the age-associated losses in food perception described in Section 2 also impact on the regulation of seniors’ satiety responses,
and could they be somehow linked to a gradual, unintentional reduction in food intake and/or appetite? Secondly,could foods be designed in such a way that they could promote a certain amount of overeating in nutritionally frail seniors? Interestingly,