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"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down": bitter masking by sucrose among children and adults.
Chemical senses - 1 Jan 2015
Mennella Julie A, Reed Danielle R, Mathew Phoebe S, Roberts Kristi M, Mansfield Corrine J
Abstract excerpt
Sweeteners are often added to liquid formulations of drugs but whether they merely make them better tasting or actually reduce the perception of bitterness remains unknown. In a group of children and adults, we determined whether adding sucrose to urea, caffeine, denatonium benzoate, propylthiouracil (PROP), and quinine would reduce their bitterness using a forced-choice method of paired comparisons. To better...
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