Taste of methyl-α-D-mannopyranoside: Effects of cross adaptation and Gymnema sylvestre
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemical Senses
- Vol. 3 (1) , 45-50
- https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/3.1.45
Abstract
Methyl-α-D-mannopyranoside is a glycoside with a bitter-sweet taste. Adaptation to sucrose reduces the sweetness and adaptation to quinine sulphate reduces the bitterness of methyl-α-Dmannopyranoside. Application of Gymnema sylvestre reduces the sweetness of methyl-α-D-mannopyranoside without reducing its bitterness. These results, predicted by previous studies, contradict a recent hypothesis and report by Birch and Mylvaganam.Keywords
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