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Taste Function in Healthy Taiwanese Adults

OBJECTIVE: In this work, our aim was to measure the taste function of healthy Taiwanese adults using 2 commonly used taste tests. METHODS: The taste function of 102 healthy Taiwanese adults was evaluated using the whole-mouth suprathreshold taste test and the taste quad test. In the whole-mouth tast...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Rong-San, Lin, Wen-Jiun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31065221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179550619845331
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description OBJECTIVE: In this work, our aim was to measure the taste function of healthy Taiwanese adults using 2 commonly used taste tests. METHODS: The taste function of 102 healthy Taiwanese adults was evaluated using the whole-mouth suprathreshold taste test and the taste quad test. In the whole-mouth taste test, 5 concentrations of sweet, bitter, sour, and salty solutions were sipped and swished in the mouth twice in a counterbalanced order. A total of 40 tests were done to give a maximum score of 40 for correct quality identification of tastant solutions. In the taste quad test, the 4 quadrants of the tongue were tested using high concentration drops of sweet, bitter, sour, and salty solutions 6 times. A total of 96 tests were done to give a maximum score of 96 for correct quality identification of tastant solutions. RESULTS: The score of the whole-mouth taste test ranged from 33 to 40 with a mean of 38.6 for men and from 31 to 40 with a mean of 38.9 for women. The score of the taste quad test ranged from 40 to 91 with a mean of 75 for men and from 38 to 96 with a mean of 78 for women. Sex was shown not to affect the taste function. CONCLUSIONS: Our result showed that sex did not affect the taste function of healthy Taiwanese adults.
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spelling pubmed-64887832019-05-07 Taste Function in Healthy Taiwanese Adults Jiang, Rong-San Lin, Wen-Jiun Clin Med Insights Ear Nose Throat Original Research OBJECTIVE: In this work, our aim was to measure the taste function of healthy Taiwanese adults using 2 commonly used taste tests. METHODS: The taste function of 102 healthy Taiwanese adults was evaluated using the whole-mouth suprathreshold taste test and the taste quad test. In the whole-mouth taste test, 5 concentrations of sweet, bitter, sour, and salty solutions were sipped and swished in the mouth twice in a counterbalanced order. A total of 40 tests were done to give a maximum score of 40 for correct quality identification of tastant solutions. In the taste quad test, the 4 quadrants of the tongue were tested using high concentration drops of sweet, bitter, sour, and salty solutions 6 times. A total of 96 tests were done to give a maximum score of 96 for correct quality identification of tastant solutions. RESULTS: The score of the whole-mouth taste test ranged from 33 to 40 with a mean of 38.6 for men and from 31 to 40 with a mean of 38.9 for women. The score of the taste quad test ranged from 40 to 91 with a mean of 75 for men and from 38 to 96 with a mean of 78 for women. Sex was shown not to affect the taste function. CONCLUSIONS: Our result showed that sex did not affect the taste function of healthy Taiwanese adults. SAGE Publications 2019-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6488783/ /pubmed/31065221 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179550619845331 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31065221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179550619845331
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