Table 4.

Mean values of daily equivalent frequency consumption for the 22 food categories by salty and sweet taste sensitivity level.

Items	Daily Equivalent Frequency				Daily Equivalent Frequency
	p value	Salty Taste Sensitivity Level			p value	Sweet Taste Sensitivity Level
		Hyper	Normal	Hypo		Hyper	Normal	Hypo
Cereal and cereal-derived products (e.g., pasta, rice, barley, spelt)	0.07	1.67	1.33	2.23	0.88	1.92	1.58	1.49
Salty baked products (e.g., bread, pizza, focaccia)	0.007	0.99 b	1.45 ab	1.99 a	0.69	1.37	1.12	1.40
Bakery products (e.g., bakery and breakfast cereals, biscuits, croissants)	0.04	0.76 b	1.39 a	1.42 a	0.48	1.12	1.34	0.94
Meats	0.98	0.50	0.51	0.49	0.85	0.48	0.54	0.50
Cured meats	0.64	0.36	0.40	0.31	0.09	0.27	0.48	0.37
Fish	0.16	0.41	0.28	0.43	0.35	0.39	0.28	0.39
Milk and yoghurts	0.47	0.84	0.75	1.11	0.27	0.75	0.61	1.04
Dairy products	0.32	0.51	0.79	0.79	0.19	0.52	0.62	0.86
Eggs	0.22	0.34	0.23	0.29	0.72	0.33	0.27	0.30
Vegetables	0.41	1.80	1.85	2.40	0.08	2.62	1.72	1.71
Legumes	0.05	0.36 b	0.67a	0.41 ab	0.03	0.69 a	0.41 ab	0.35 b
Potatoes	0.20	0.35	0.58	0.47	0.65	0.49	0.35	0.41
Fruit	0.22	1.65	1.84	2.42	0.79	2.07	1.78	1.78
Fruit juices	0.31	0.22	0.43	0.48	0.80	0.40	0.26	0.36
Nuts	0.27	0.23	0.45	0.36	0.76	0.33	0.22	0.33
Sweets and desserts (e.g., cakes, ice creams, chocolate)	0.53	0.60	0.86	0.78	0.02	0.32 b	0.98 a	0.87 a
Fats	0.05	0.26 b	0.22 b	0.45 a	0.18	0.19	0.35	0.34
Oils	0.47	1.99	1.54	1.72	0.87	1.83	1.94	1.74
Salty snacks (e.g., chips, salty peanuts)	0.23	0.22	0.22	0.35	0.23	0.17	0.27	0.30
Alcoholic beverages	0.21	0.49	0.29	0.31	0.18	0.30	0.56	0.35
Soft drinks	0.007	0.26 b	1.13 a	0.16 b	0.82	0.59	0.39	0.38
Candies and gums	0.82	0.63	0.54	0.78	0.32	0.82	0.81	0.40

Significant p-values are shown in bold. Different letters indicate significant differences according to Bonferroni’s post hoc test.