Research, Funding, and Awards

  • Show Us Your Good Taste

    Adults, 30 to 65 of age, are invited to participate in a study looking at why we eat what we do.


    Your participation in our study requires:

    • taste and smell tests, surveys on your health behaviors;

    • a brief non-invasive (shoe removal only) physical examination to measure height, weight, waist circumference, blood pressure, pulse, and body fat;

    • fasting blood to be drawn for standard blood lipid and glucose evaluations, and for measuring factors related to stress and systemic inflammation;

     

    For your participation in this study you can receive:

    Information about your health status

    Free blood tests

    Financial compensation for full participation

     

    Space is limited!


    This study was approved by the UConn IRB, protocol# H02-034-096

    For more information, contact: The Taste Lab at TasteLab@uconn.edu