Taste Manipulation during a Food Cue-Reactivity Task
Description
These data were collected to test the primary hypothesis that tasting high-calorie foods during a food cue-reactivity task would evoke stronger craving relative to not tasting (i.e., only observing) high-calorie foods. The data indicated that tasting high-calorie foods suppressed cue-elicited food craving compared to not tasting high-calorie foods (a nonsignificant, though medium-sized effect). The taste manipulation did not affect calorie intake during a subsequent bogus taste test. Results also indicated that cue-elicited food craving to in vivo food cues elicited stronger craving than photographic food cues. The data included in this upload include basic demographic variables, baseline craving, cue-elicited craving ratings in response to food cues, divided by cue type (low-, high-calorie) and cue mode (photographic, in vivo), and total calorie intake during the bogus taste test. Baseline and cue-elicited craving ratings reflect sum scores from the 3-item Intense Desire to Eat subscale of the Food Cravings Questionnaire-State (FCQ-S). Cue-elicited craving was assessed after the administration of each food cue presented during a food cue-reactivity task (8 low-calorie and 8 high-calorie food cues, divided evenly between photographic and in vivo food cues). Craving scores were averaged across the 3-item FCQ-S ratings by cue type and cue mode to produce four cue-elicited craving scores (low-calorie photographic, low-calorie in vivo, high-calorie photographic, high-calorie in vivo). During in vivo food cue trials, participants randomized to the No Taste group closely observed, but were unable to taste food cues, whereas participants randomized to the Taste group closely observed and then consumed the food cues (this was the only difference between groups). After the food cue-reactivity task, participants engaged in a 10-min bogus taste test of 4 high-calorie foods. Total grams of food consumed was converted to total calories consumed based on the manufacturer's nutrition information.