Taste Test

Review of Test Methods and Criteria for Assessing Taste and Off-taste

A brief-access test for bitter taste in mice.

Inbred mouse strains vary in their response to bitter-tasting compounds as assessed by 48 h preference tests. These differences are generally assumed to result from altered gustatory function, although such long-term tests could easily reflect additional factors. We developed a brief-access taste test and tested the responses of two inbred strains, as well as C3. SW congenic mice, to the bitter...

Taste test: children rate flavoring agents used with activated charcoal.

OBJECTIVE To compare flavoring agents added to activated charcoal (AC) to determine which mixture is most palatable to children. DESIGN Healthy volunteers between the ages of 3 and 17 years participated in a prospective masked trial. Five identical pitchers were prepared containing AC alone, AC with chocolate milk, AC with Coca-Cola (Coca-Cola Corp, Atlanta, Ga), AC with cherry-flavored syrup...

A Matter of Taste : Understanding Taste

Presenter Disclosures for Betsy Reynolds, RDH, MS Acts as a Key Opinion Leader for Philips/Discus  In that capacity, she receives educational grant funding for presentation development  She is not an employee of either company and has no vested interest in sales of any product manufactured or distributed by Philips/Discus Ms. Reynolds has received financial reimbursement from Parkell for auth...

Taste isn't just for taste buds anymore

Taste is a discriminative sense involving specialized receptor cells of the oral cavity (taste buds) and at least two distinct families of G protein-coupled receptor molecules that detect nutritionally important substances or potential toxins. Yet the receptor mechanisms that drive taste also are utilized by numerous systems throughout the body. How and why these so-called taste receptors are u...