1. QUALITATIVE GUSTATORY CHARACTERISTICS OF DISODIUM-5'-GUANYLATE.
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Gregson, R. A. M. and Simmonds, M. B.
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TASTE ,MONOSODIUM glutamate ,TASTE testing of food ,SENSORY evaluation ,SENSES ,INDIVIDUAL differences ,PSYCHOPHYSICS - Abstract
Descriptions of the taste qualities of a nucleotide, disodium-5′-guanylate, are reported under two different response sets, lenient and stringent. Control comparison stimuli were de-ionized water and weak sodium chloride, and near threshold taste concentrations were used. Twenty subjects, 10 under each response set, participated. D5'G has a complex taste, and induces a marked false positive detection response pattern which resembles its own taste. The implications for methodology in gustatory psychophysics are noted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1971
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