Or, to put it more colourfully, “the food world is neon to a supertaster. To somebody like me, it’s pastel.” In the Center for Smell and Taste at the University of Florida, Bartoshuk ...

Food that is very bitter to 25% of the world, who are often classified as "supertasters," is barely bitter to the other third. The rest of us fall somewhere in between. Sumathi Reddy and ...

To find out if you're a supertaster: 1. Darken your mouth by swirling around red wine 2. Take a piece of notepaper with holes punched in the margin, which are around 6mm in diameter 3. Place a ...

Wine magazine has now come up with an easy way to find out if you are a supertaster. To take the test you need some blue food colouring, a piece of paper with a 7mm-wide hole punched through it ...

For me, one of those problems is that I am a supertaster. And despite that sounding fun — after all, it has super right in the title — it actually is a serious detriment to my work.

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