John E. Hayes, PhD, is an associate professor of Food Science and the director of the Sensory Evaluation Center at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.
Susan L. Johnson, PhD, is a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the director of The Children’s Eating Laboratory in Aurora, Colorado.
No funding was received by the authors for the preparation of this article. This article appears in the Nutrition Today supplement, Sweet Taste Perception and Feeding Toddlers, funded by The Sugar Association.
Dr John Hayes receives salary support from the Pennsylvania State University and US Department of Agriculture Hatch Project Funds (PEN04565). In the past 5 years, he has received honoraria, travel expenses, and/or consulting fees from federal agencies, publishers, nonprofit organizations, trade groups, and corporate clients in the food industry. The Sensory Evaluation Center at The Pennsylvania State University routinely conducts taste tests for clients in the food industry to facilitate experiential learning for undergraduate and graduate students. Dr Susan Johnson receives salary support from the University of Colorado, the US Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, and The Sugar Association. She has also received honoraria and travel support from federal agencies and nonprofit organizations.
Correspondence: John E. Hayes, PhD, Sensory Evaluation Center, Department of Food Science, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 202 Rodney A Erickson Food Science Building, University Park, PA 16802 ([email protected]).
