The purpose of the present review is to survey the experimental studies relating to food acceptance, since the last critical review by the writer in 1941. After presenting some general references, the writer deals with the following major categories: bodily needs and homeostasis, dependence of food acceptance upon the organic state, palatability and the environmental determinants of food acceptance, experimental methods for the analysis of food acceptance, the motivation of food-seeking and food-selecting behavior, feeding habits, and affective psychology and the science of nutrition. 79-item bibliography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved