Are the tastes of polycose and monosodium glutamate unique?

Chemical Senses

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 341-347

  Hettinger, Thomas P ^a   Frank, Marion E ^a   Myers, Walter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; FLAVORING AGENT; GLUCOSE POLYMER; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CLAMP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAVOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY;

ADULT; CARBOHYDRATES; FEMALE; FOOD ADDITIVES; GLUCANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMELL; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 0029946775     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/21.3.341     Document Type: Article

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