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  • From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] which fruits taste best?
  • Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:56:09 -0700

You can buy a test strip,
(http://www.indigo.com/test-strips/gph-test-strips/ptc-taste-test-strips.htm
l). There are two chemicals used in test trips - thiourea is the more
common one. The more super your taste, the more bitter the strip. You can
also test using grapefruit; even the sweetest varieties will be unpalatable
to most supertasters. These tests are not considered definitive, but
correlate pretty well.

Here's a test considered definitive (but I think a combination of the two
types of tests is definitively definitive):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/articles/senses/tongue_experimen
t.shtml

~ Stephen,
supertaster

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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] which fruits taste best?

How does one test for 'super taster' status?

Betsy Hilborn
7a NC






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