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Lack of Correlation Between Food Retention on the Human Dentition and Consumer Perception of Food Stickiness
S. Kashket
Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Center for Research on the Oral and Biological Effects of Foods, Forsyth Dental Center, 140 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
J. Van Houte
Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Center for Research on the Oral and Biological Effects of Foods, Forsyth Dental Center, 140 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
L.R. Lopez
Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Center for Research on the Oral and Biological Effects of Foods, Forsyth Dental Center, 140 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
S. Stocks
Departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Center for Research on the Oral and Biological Effects of Foods, Forsyth Dental Center, 140 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
When dental health professionals advise that sticky foods be avoided, it is left to the consumer to choose correctly among different foods. In this study, comparisons were made among consumer ratings of stickiness of 21 commercially available foods and objective measurements of tooth retention of each of the foods. No correlation was found between the two, and neither the rates of clearance of food particles from the teeth nor the rates of clearance of food-derived sugars from the saliva correlated with ratings of food stickiness. Cookies, crackers, and potato chips were most retentive, whereas caramels, jelly beans, raisins, and milk chocolate bars were among those poorly retained. Clearance rates appeared to vary inversely with initial retention. However, chocolate-caramel bars exhibited high initial retention and a very rapid rate of clearance from the teeth. The findings show that consumers cannot accurately assess the retentiveness of foods and, thus, the advice simply to avoid sticky ones is inadequate.
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Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 70, No. 10,
1314-1319 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/00220345910700100101
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