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I've found that my taste preferences & sensativities change w/ time of day, 
fatigue &/or dehydration level, weather, and maybe astrological influences 
[joke].  Sometimes only the tart fruits seem edible, other times only the 
sweetest apples will do.  This gives me an excuse to share my fruit 
exploring w/ neighbors and other tolerant acquaintances, because if I can 
get comments back from several other tasters, the info is much more reliable 
than just my biased & fickle taste-buds.


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From: "Stephen Sadler" <>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fwd: Super Tasters
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:48:52 -0700

I don't remember which compound we used to test supertasters back at
college, but we would put a drop on snips of paper.  Subjects would hold the
paper against their tongues and describe the flavor.  The substance I was
thinking of would register as flavorless, mildly pleasant, or mildly
unpleasant, all the way up to "Yecch!! Are you trying to poison me?  What is
this, lye??""  I'm in the last group....