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Fig. 1. Palatability is a complex phenomenon that integrates a food's odor, taste, and texture with the postingestive effects of nutrients and toxins in the food. The process of ingesting a food causes an animal to satiate on the foods it is eating, and the satiety hypothesis attributes changes in palatability to transient food aversions due to flavors, nutrients, and toxins interacting along temporal concentration gradients.

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