Study on Taste Threshold in Subjects of University Students

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The purpose of this study was to collect basic data on the sense of taste in young subjects in order to generate a quantifiable measure on which clinical examinations can be based. The test was performed on 31 university students between the ages of 18 and 22 (average age: 19.7 years). Each subjects filled out a questionnaire to determine their food qualitative preferences followed by quantitative taste examinations for the four basic tastes; sweet, salty, sour and bitter. We used filter paper disc method to evaluate the total mean of the cognitive thresholds of in both side of the chorda tympani and glossopharyngeal innervated regions of the tongue. We confirmed that the total mean values were within the normal range for both males and females, though two males showed mild abnormalities, and observed threshold distributions. These results of the data we gathered suggested that males might have a higher taste threshold than females in young subjects.

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