PTC/PROP tasting: Anatomy, psychophysics, and sex effects
@article{Bartoshuk1994PTCPROPTA,
title={PTC/PROP tasting: Anatomy, psychophysics, and sex effects},
author={L. Bartoshuk and V. Duffy and I. J. Miller},
journal={Physiology & Behavior},
year={1994},
volume={56},
pages={1165-1171}
}Taste worlds of humans vary because of taste blindness to phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and its chemical relative, 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP). We review early PTC studies and apply modern statistical analyses to show that a higher frequency of women tasted PTC crystals, and were tasters (threshold classification). In our laboratory, scaling of PROP bitterness led to the identification of a subset of tasters (supertasters) who rate PROP as intensely bitter. Supertasters also perceive stronger… CONTINUE READING
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