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Sweet taste receptor gene variation and aspartame taste in primates and other species.
Chemical senses - 1 Jun 2011
Li Xia, Bachmanov Alexander A, Maehashi Kenji, Li Weihua, Lim Raymond, Brand Joseph G, Beauchamp Gary K, Reed Danielle R, Thai Chloe, Floriano Wely B
Abstract excerpt
Aspartame is a sweetener added to foods and beverages as a low-calorie sugar replacement. Unlike sugars, which are apparently perceived as sweet and desirable by a range of mammals, the ability to taste aspartame varies, with humans, apes, and Old World monkeys perceiving aspartame as sweet but not other primate species. To investigate whether the ability to perceive the sweetness of aspartame correlates with...
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