A new study revealed that some individuals, who eat Osmbek, Wigofi, or Monjo, find that the taste of food has become more sweet or salty than before, while their sense of bitterness and acidity has not changed.
The study was conducted on more than 400 people, one in every five of them suffered from increasing their sensitivity to the taste of some foods, and many reported that they had a decrease in hunger and the ease of their fullness.
The study was conducted by researchers from the Vienna Medical University in Austria and the University of Bayroit in Germany, and its results were presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for Diabetes Study in Vienna, Austria on September 15-19, and the British Daily Mail was written about it.
The participants in the study were asked whether the sense of taste (the realization of sweetness, salinity, acidity and gallbladder) has changed since the start of treatment.
They were also asked about changes in appetite, satiety, and the desire to eat, in addition to changes in lifestyle factors, such as smoking, and about self -data related to length and weight before and during treatment.
Changes in the sense of taste
Analysis revealed that there are links between changes in the sense of taste, appetite and satiety, and the participants who said that the taste of food had become sweeter since the start of treatment is more likely to report an increase in the feeling of satiety twice, compared to the participants who said that their awareness of sweetness had not changed.
The participants who said that the taste of food had become more salty than before more likely to report an increase in the feeling of satiety almost two times, compared to those whose awareness of the salinity has not changed.
“These drugs are not only affecting the bowel and brain areas that control hunger, but also affect the cells of taste buds and brain areas that treat taste and reward. This means that they can change slightly how to perceive strong flavors, such as sweetness or salinity. This in turn may affect appetite,” says Professor Ontar Mosser, who is participating in the study from the University of Bayroit in Germany.