Interrelationship of Some Selected Nutritional Parameters Relevant to Taste for Salt in a Group of College-Aged Women

Abstract

Students in a women's college were investigated for taste acuity for salt, discrimination of salt concentrations in food, and anthropometrical (the body mass index, and systolic and diastolic blood pressures) and biochemical nutritional parameters (blood hemoglobin, plasma zinc, plasma copper, plasma vitamin A, plasma retinol-binding protein, urinary sodium, urinary potassium, urinary magnesium, urinary calcium and urinary zinc). © 1985, Center for Academic Publications Japan. All rights reserved.