Preliminary validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale.

By Ashley N. Gearhardt, W. Corbin, K. Brownell. Appetite, 2009

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From prediction error to incentive salience: mesolimbic computation of reward motivation (2012, background): “Likewise, a cued binge eater may ‘want’ only foods or one particular food above all (Gearhardt et al., 2009; Pelchat, 2009).”
Which Foods May Be Addictive? The Roles of Processing, Fat Content, and Glycemic Load (2015, methodology): “The present findings support and extend the preclinical literature [7,49,50] by demonstrating that all foods are not equally implicated in addictive-like eating, and highly processed foods, which do not occur in nature, appear to be most problematic, as described by the YFAS.”
The tempted brain eats: pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders. (2010, neutral): “Other views would restrict the food addiction label to relatively few people, in particular to cases of extreme over-eating that border closely on compulsion (Davis et al., 2008; Davis and Carter, 2009; Davis et al., 2009; Gearhardt et al., 2009).”