Sweet Taste Preference and Alcohol Dependence

CHITTARANJAN ANDRADE, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.3.498

To the Editor: Dr. Kranzler and colleagues asked 122 nonalcoholic subjects to rate a series of sucrose solutions. Comparing subjects with and without a paternal history of alcoholism, they found that subjects in both groups preferred a 0.42-mol sucrose solution. They therefore concluded that their results failed to support the hypothesis that a sweet preference is a marker of alcoholism risk.

I take issue with their logic. Since a paternal history of alcoholism is itself merely an indicator/marker of alcoholism risk, what Dr. Kranzler et al. actually showed is that a sweet preference does not characterize this indicator/marker of alcoholism risk. This is not the same as concluding that a sweet preference is not a marker of alcoholism risk.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 159 • Number 3 • March 2002

Pages: 498

PubMed: 11870036

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Published online: 1 March 2002

Published in print: March 2002

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CHITTARANJAN ANDRADE, M.D.

Bangalore, India

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Sweet Taste Preference and Alcohol Dependence