Academic Consortium Publications for December 2023

Mary Poppins had it right, a spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down. In a recently accepted manuscript to Chemical Senses, Tansaraviput and Nolden present results from 121 consumers to show the metallic off-taste of ferrous sulfate (FeSO4) is masked not only by sucrose, but also by citric acid, sodium chloride. All three worked similarly well at suppressing the metallic taste of FeSO4 at 1.0 nM, but sucrose suppressed the metallic taste best for FeSO4 at 0.3 nM. Read about this and 19 other papers published this month by members of the Compusense Academic Consortium.