Julie A. Mennella

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Julie A. Mennella's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of California, San Diego
Masters Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Biology University of Chicago

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Prenatal and postnatal flavor learning by human infants. (2001) (924)
Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Bitter Perception and Sweet Preferences (2005) (502)
A Cross‐Cultural Perspective (1997) (355)
A Cross‐Cultural Perspective (1997) (355)
Ontogeny of taste preferences: basic biology and implications for health. (2014) (334)
Early Flavor Learning and Its Impact on Later Feeding Behavior (2009) (328)
Early Determinants of Fruit and Vegetable Acceptance (2007) (321)
Maternal diet alters the sensory qualities of human milk and the nursling's behavior. (1991) (304)
Garlic ingestion by pregnant women alters the odor of amniotic fluid. (1995) (301)
The transfer of alcohol to human milk. Effects on flavor and the infant's behavior. (1991) (301)
Flavor variety enhances food acceptance in formula-fed infants. (2001) (257)
Variety is the spice of life: Strategies for promoting fruit and vegetable acceptance during infancy (2008) (252)
The sweetness and bitterness of childhood: Insights from basic research on taste preferences (2015) (240)
Flavor experiences during formula feeding are related to preferences during childhood. (2002) (235)
Innate and learned preferences for sweet taste during childhood (2011) (219)
Sweet and sour preferences during childhood: role of early experiences. (2002) (217)
Implementing American Heart Association pediatric and adult nutrition guidelines: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee of the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, Council on Arteriosclerosis, (2009) (209)
Early milk feeding influences taste acceptance and liking during infancy. (2009) (196)
The bad taste of medicines: overview of basic research on bitter taste. (2013) (189)
The Effects of Repeated Exposure to Garlic-Flavored Milk on the Nursling's Behavior (1993) (188)
Flavor programming during infancy. (2004) (186)
Age modifies the genotype-phenotype relationship for the bitter receptor TAS2R38 (2010) (178)
Flavor Perception in Human Infants: Development and Functional Significance (2011) (170)
Optimizing oral medications for children. (2008) (169)
Obese Women Have Lower Monosodium Glutamate Taste Sensitivity and Prefer Higher Concentrations Than Do Normal‐weight Women (2010) (165)
Women's sexual experience during the menstrual cycle: Identification of the sexual phase by noninvasive measurement of luteinizing hormone (2004) (164)
Sweetness and Food Preference123 (2012) (155)
Preferences for Salty and Sweet Tastes Are Elevated and Related to Each Other during Childhood (2014) (152)
The human infants' response to vanilla flavors in mother's milk and formula (1996) (147)
Experience with a flavor in mother's milk modifies the infant's acceptance of flavored cereal. (1999) (143)
Beer, breast feeding, and folklore. (1993) (134)
The development of sweet taste: From biology to hedonics (2016) (134)
NIH consensus development conference statement: Lactose intolerance and health. (2010) (131)
Heightened sour preferences during childhood. (2003) (126)
Differential Growth Patterns Among Healthy Infants Fed Protein Hydrolysate or Cow-Milk Formulas (2011) (122)
Factors contributing to individual differences in sucrose preference. (2005) (122)
Evaluation of the Monell forced-choice, paired-comparison tracking procedure for determining sweet taste preferences across the lifespan. (2011) (121)
Chemosensory factors influencing alcohol perception, preferences, and consumption. (2003) (117)
Vegetable and Fruit Acceptance during Infancy: Impact of Ontogeny, Genetics, and Early Experiences. (2016) (116)
Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study: the types of foods fed to Hispanic infants and toddlers. (2006) (114)
Complementary Foods and Flavor Experiences: Setting the Foundation (2012) (114)
Sweetness and Food Preference (2012) (114)
National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference: Lactose Intolerance and Health (2010) (111)
Effects of cigarette smoking and family history of alcoholism on sweet taste perception and food cravings in women. (2007) (109)
Sucrose-induced analgesia is related to sweet preferences in children but not adults (2005) (109)
Understanding the origin of flavor preferences. (2005) (103)
Infants' suckling responses to the flavor of alcohol in mothers' milk. (1997) (101)
Early flavor experiences: research update. (2009) (100)
Infants' exploration of scented toys: effects of prior experiences. (1998) (98)
Infant regulation of intake: the effect of free glutamate content in infant formulas. (2012) (94)
Learning to like vegetables during breastfeeding: a randomized clinical trial of lactating mothers and infants. (2017) (93)
Offering “dip” promotes intake of a moderately-liked raw vegetable among preschoolers with genetic sensitivity to bitterness. (2012) (93)
Mother's Milk: A Medium for Early Flavor Experiences (1995) (92)
Infanticide in rats: Male strategy and female counter-strategy (1988) (91)
The timing and duration of a sensitive period in human flavor learning: a randomized trial. (2011) (89)
Biological Control of Appetite: A Daunting Complexity (2017) (88)
The gustatory and olfactory systems during infancy: implications for development of feeding behaviors in the high-risk neonate. (2011) (88)
Acute alcohol consumption disrupts the hormonal milieu of lactating women. (2005) (88)
Breastfeeding and Smoking: Short-term Effects on Infant Feeding and Sleep (2007) (87)
Human bitter perception correlates with bitter receptor messenger RNA expression in taste cells. (2013) (82)
Smoking and the flavor of breast milk. (1998) (81)
Developmental Changes in the Acceptance of Protein Hydrolysate Formula (1996) (78)
Effects of exposure to alcohol in mother's milk on infant sleep. (1998) (77)
Infant salt taste: developmental, methodological, and contextual factors. (1994) (77)
Sweet preferences and analgesia during childhood: effects of family history of alcoholism and depression. (2010) (77)
Mothers' Milk Enhances the Acceptance of Cereal during Weaning (1997) (74)
Infant feeding practices and early flavor experiences in Mexican infants: an intra-cultural study. (2005) (73)
The proof is in the pudding: children prefer lower fat but higher sugar than do mothers (2012) (72)
Gustation assessment using the NIH Toolbox (2013) (71)
Children's hedonic response to the smell of alcohol: effects of parental drinking habits. (2000) (70)
Caregiver feeding practices and child weight outcomes: a systematic review. (2019) (70)
Regulation of milk intake after exposure to alcohol in mothers' milk. (2001) (70)
Individual Differences Among Children in Sucrose Detection Thresholds (2015) (69)
Summary of the Presentations at the Conference on Preventing Childhood Obesity, December 8, 2003 (2004) (68)
Alcohol’s Effect on Lactation (2001) (68)
"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down": bitter masking by sucrose among children and adults. (2015) (66)
Evidence suggesting that the odortypes of pregnant women are a compound of maternal and fetal odortypes. (1995) (66)
The Ontogeny of Human Flavor Perception (1997) (65)
Children's hedonic judgments of cigarette smoke odor: effects of parental smoking and maternal mood. (2005) (64)
Consistency in infants' behavioural signalling of satiation during bottle‐feeding (2015) (61)
Influence of maternal diet on flavor transfer to amniotic fluid and breast milk and children's responses: a systematic review. (2019) (54)
The International society for developmental psychobiology 39th annual meeting symposium: Alcohol and development: beyond fetal alcohol syndrome. (2007) (54)
An Experimental Approach to Study Individual Differences in Infants' Intake and Satiation Behaviors during Bottle-Feeding. (2017) (54)
Modification of bitter taste in children. (2003) (53)
Psychophysical dissection of genotype effects on human bitter perception. (2011) (53)
Vegetable acceptance by infants: effects of formula flavors. (2006) (53)
The early development of human flavor preferences (1996) (51)
Inter-litter competition and communal nursing among Norway rats: advantages of birth synchrony (1990) (51)
Type of infant formula increases early weight gain and impacts energy balance: a randomized controlled trial. (2018) (51)
Sleep disturbances after acute exposure to alcohol in mothers' milk. (2001) (50)
Developmental Perspectives on Nutrition and Obesity From Gestation to Adolescence (2009) (50)
Food, Folklore, and Flavor Preference Development (2008) (50)
Diet, sensitive periods in flavour learning, and growth (2012) (50)
Early feeding: setting the stage for healthy eating habits. (2011) (49)
More than just a pretty face. The relationship between infant’s temperament, food acceptance, and mothers’ perceptions of their enjoyment of food (2012) (49)
Age-Related Differences in Bitter Taste and Efficacy of Bitter Blockers (2014) (49)
Infanticide in the male rat: The role of the vomeronasal organ (1988) (48)
Short-term effects of maternal alcohol consumption on lactational performance. (1998) (47)
Social chemosignals from breastfeeding women increase sexual motivation (2004) (46)
Sensitive period in flavor learning: effects of duration of exposure to formula flavors on food likes during infancy. (2012) (45)
Early‐life influences on obesity: from preconception to adolescence (2015) (45)
Early rapid weight gain among formula‐fed infants: Impact of formula type and maternal feeding styles (2019) (44)
Repeated exposure to food and food acceptability in infants and toddlers: a systematic review. (2019) (43)
Lingual tactile acuity and food texture preferences among children and their mothers. (2012) (42)
Hypothalamic temperature and deep body temperature during copulation in the male rat (1987) (39)
Development of a test to evaluate olfactory function in a pediatric population (2011) (38)
Free amino acid content in infant formulas (2012) (37)
Similarities in Food Cravings and Mood States Between Obese Women and Women Who Smoke Tobacco (2009) (36)
Children’s perceptions about medicines: individual differences and taste (2015) (36)
Flavour programming during breast-feeding. (2009) (36)
Chapter 177 – Development of Taste and Smell in the Neonate (2004) (33)
Habituation to the pleasure elicited by sweetness in lean and obese women (2012) (32)
Personal Variation in Preference for Sweetness: Effects of Age and Obesity. (2017) (32)
The transfer of alcohol to human milk: Sensory implications and effects on mother–infant interaction. (1999) (32)
Free amino acid content in breast milk of adolescent and adult mothers in Ecuador (2014) (31)
Effects of breastfeeding chemosignals on the human menstrual cycle. (2004) (30)
The Transfer of Alcohol to Human Milk: Effects on Flavor and the Infantʼs Behavior (1992) (30)
Evaluating the Prevalence of Olfactory Dysfunction in a Pediatric Population (2009) (29)
Breastfeeding and Prolactin Levels in Lactating Women With a Family History of Alcoholism (2010) (28)
The Ontogeny of Taste Perception and Preference Throughout Childhood (2015) (28)
Caffeine Bitterness is Related to Daily Caffeine Intake and Bitter Receptor mRNA Abundance in Human Taste Tissue (2017) (27)
Relationship between bitter-taste receptor genotype and solid medication formulation usage among young children: a retrospective analysis. (2012) (26)
Lactational state modifies alcohol pharmacokinetics in women. (2007) (24)
Children's hedonic responses to the odors of alcoholic beverages: a window to emotions. (2008) (23)
Relationship between Sucrose Taste Detection Thresholds and Preferences in Children, Adolescents, and Adults (2020) (23)
Development and Bad Taste (1998) (22)
Biphasic effects of moderate drinking on prolactin during lactation. (2008) (22)
Disruption in the Relationship between Blood Pressure and Salty Taste Thresholds among Overweight and Obese Children. (2015) (22)
The Sweet Taste of Childhood (2008) (21)
Advice given to women in Argentina about breast-feeding and the use of alcohol. (2004) (20)
Effects of beer on breast-fed infants. (1993) (20)
Short-term effects of alcohol consumption on the hormonal milieu and mood states in nulliparous women. (2006) (20)
Variation in the TAS2R31 bitter taste receptor gene relates to liking for the nonnutritive sweetener Acesulfame-K among children and adults (2016) (19)
Cigarette smoking and obesity are associated with decreased fat perception in women (2014) (19)
The Role of Early Life Experiences in Flavor Perception and Delight (2010) (17)
Short-term influence of breastfeeding on the infants' interaction with the environment. (2000) (17)
Pheromonal emission by pregnant rats protects against infanticide by nulliparous conspecifics (1989) (16)
Understanding the basic biology underlying the flavor world of children (2010) (15)
Developmental changes in nasal airflow patterns. (1992) (15)
The Relationship Between Infant Facial Expressions and Food Acceptance (2017) (15)
Farm to Sensory Lab: Taste of Blueberry Fruit by Children and Adults. (2017) (14)
Breast pumping and lactational state exert differential effects on ethanol pharmacokinetics. (2010) (14)
Avoidance of hydrolyzed casein by mice (2008) (13)
Development of food preferences: Lessons learned from longitudinal and experimental studies. (2006) (12)
Effects of cow milk versus extensive protein hydrolysate formulas on infant cognitive development (2015) (11)
Impact of early rapid weight gain on odds for overweight at one year differs between breastfed and formula‐fed infants (2020) (11)
Alcohol use during lactation: effects on the mother and the breastfeeding infant. (2004) (10)
Use of Adult Sensory Panel to Study Individual Differences in the Palatability of a Pediatric HIV Treatment Drug. (2017) (10)
Early Flavor Experiences: When Do They Start? (1994) (10)
Olfactory Preferences in Children and Adults (1991) (10)
Children's liking of sweet tastes and its biological basis (2006) (10)
Bitter avoidance in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) and mice (Mus musculus and Peromyscus leucopus). (2010) (10)
Measuring sweet and bitter taste in children: Individual variation due to age and taste genetics. (2018) (9)
Impaired cough sensitivity in children of smokers. (2013) (9)
Protein Hydrolysates Are Avoided by Herbivores but Not by Omnivores in Two-Choice Preference Tests (2009) (8)
From biology to behavior: a cross‐disciplinary seminar series surrounding added sugar and low‐calorie sweetener consumption (2019) (7)
Influence of Maternal Diet on Flavor Transfer to Amniotic Fluid and Breast Milk and Children’s Responses: A Systematic Review (2019) (7)
Repeated Exposure to Low-Sodium Cereal Affects Acceptance but Does not Shift Taste Preferences or Detection Thresholds of Children in a Randomized Clinical Trial. (2019) (7)
Psychophysical Tracking Method to Measure Taste Preferences in Children and Adults. (2016) (6)
Effects of Early Weight Gain Velocity, Diet Quality, and Snack Food Access on Toddler Weight Status at 1.5 Years: Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Infant Formula Trial (2021) (5)
Proceedings of the 2015 ASPEN Research Workshop—Taste Signaling: Impact on Food Selection, Intake, and Health (2017) (5)
Facultative sex-ratio adjustment in Norway rats: litters born asynchronously are female biased (1992) (4)
The Macronutrient Composition of Infant Formula Produces Differences in Gut Microbiota Maturation That Associate with Weight Gain Velocity and Weight Status (2022) (4)
Exposure to a slightly sweet lipid-based nutrient supplement during early life does not increase the level of sweet taste most preferred among 4- to 6-year-old Ghanaian children: follow-up of a randomized controlled trial (2019) (4)
6. The sensory world of formula-fed infants: differences among artificial milk feedings in flavor learning and satiation (2014) (4)
Early Weight Gain Forecasts Accelerated Eruption of Deciduous Teeth and Later Overweight Status during the First Year. (2020) (4)
The Flavor World of Infants (2003) (4)
Sweetness and Food Preference 1-3 (2012) (3)
The Development of Infant Feeding (2020) (3)
Vegetable acceptance by infants (2008) (3)
First Avanelle Kirksey Lecture: The following article (1997) (3)
The effects of exposure to alcohol in mothers milk on the infants sleep and activity levels (1997) (2)
ALCOHOL AND LACTATION: DO NO HARM (2007) (2)
Psychophysical Tracking Method to Assess Taste Detection Thresholds in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: The Taste Detection Threshold (TDT) Test. (2021) (2)
The Molecular Basis of Individual Differences in the Taste of an HIV Treatment Drug (2016) (1)
Chemosensory Factors Affecting Acceptance of Food During Human Growth (1994) (1)
9 – Taste and Smell (2017) (1)
Pepino of Alcoholism Breastfeeding and Prolactin Levels in Lactating Women With a Family History (2010) (0)
Effects of cow milk versus extensive protein hydrolysate formulas on infant cognitive development (2015) (0)
Factors Affecting BMI Changes in Mothers during the First Year Postpartum (2023) (0)
Differential growth patterns and formula intakes among healthy formula-fed infants (2010) (0)
Timing and Patterning of Primary Teeth Eruption as a Biomarker for Early Rapid Weight Gain (P11-080-19). (2019) (0)
EFFECTS OF BEER ON BREAST-FED INFANTS. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1993) (0)
About the NIH Consensus Development Program (2010) (0)
Influence of Maternal Diet on Flavor Transfer to Amniotic Fluid and Breast Milk and Children's Responses: A Systematic Review (P11-029-19). (2019) (0)
Randomized Controlled Trial to Investigate the Effects of Repeated Exposure to Low Added Sugar Snacks Among Children: Choice of Experimental Food Stimuli (2022) (0)
Prenatal and Postnatal Flavor Learning in Human Infants (2007) (0)
OLFACTORY PREFERENCFS IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS (1991) (0)
Insights into infants’ development readiness at time of solid food introduction (2013) (0)
Gut Peptide Concentrations Prior to Feeding in Healthy Infants (2015) (0)
Sodium intake tracked from infancy and salt taste preference during adolescence: Follow-up of a randomized controlled field trial in Brazil (2022) (0)
Alcohol Use During Lactation: Effects on the Mother-Infant Dyad (2013) (0)
The Flavor World of Childhood (2015) (0)
Sodium Intake and Salt Taste Preference During Adolescence: Followup of a Randomized Controlled Field Trial (2022) (0)
Epigenetics of the human TAS2R38 gene (2015) (0)
Posteriori Diet Patterns of Formula-Fed Infants During First 1.5 Years (2021) (0)
Sweet Taste and Added Sugar Consumption in Infancy and Childhood (2021) (0)
Reporting Accuracy of Energy Intake Among Exclusively Formula-Fed Infants (P11-097-19). (2019) (0)

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