SWEETNESS OF SUCROSE, NEOHESPERIDIN DIHYDROCHALCONE, AND SACCHARIN IS RELATED TO GENETIC ABILITY TO TASTE THE BITTER SUBSTANCE 6-N-PROPYLTHIOURACIL
SWEETNESS OF SUCROSE, NEOHESPERIDIN DIHYDROCHALCONE, AND SACCHARIN IS RELATED TO GENETIC ABILITY TO TASTE THE BITTER SUBSTANCE 6-N-PROPYLTHIOURACIL
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DOI:
10.1093/chemse/7.3-4.265
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
BARTOSHUK, LM
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作者:
GENT, JF;BARTOSHUK, LM
Tasters and nontasters of the bitter compound, 6-n-propylthiouracil, were asked to judge the taste intensity of various compounds and the loudness of a 1000 Hz tone. Differences between tasters and nontasters in their suprathreshold magnitude estimates of sweet-tasting compounds, in particular, were examined with 2 different stimulation methods (front, dorsal-surface flow and whole mouth sip and spit) and with 2 different procedures for putting data onto a common intensity scale. With the 1st procedure, data were normalized to the strongest salt used (1.0 M NaCl) under the assumption that salt is equally intense to tasters and nontasters. Since differences in perceived taste intensity between these 2 groups were under investigation, the 2nd normalization procedure used the assumption that tasters and nontasters have similar perceptions of loudness. This application of a new cross-modal matching technique suggests that the perceived sweetness of sucrose, neohesperidin dihydrochalcone and saccharin is more intense to tasters than to nontasters.