Children's taste is less sensitive to sweets, so they eat more chocolate

Whilst the sense organs are fully functional from birth onwards, perception is a matter of practice. Sensory tests at TTZ Bremerhaven have shown that other benchmarks apply for children than for adults.

The investigations have shown that with increasing age there is a clear drop in the lower stimulus thresholds. In other words: the older the child/youth, the lower the concentration at which a solution is just about still experienced as being not completely tasteless. This so-called stimulus threshold sank particularly dramatically between the age of eight and adulthood. Organic reasons cannot provide any explanation for this since the taste organs as well as their neural network are already fully developed at that age.