From Denver, at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Men with exceptionally good taste may pay for it in health risks.
About 25 percent of people have extra taste buds on their tongues. They live in “a neon taste world” instead of a “pastel” one, as Yale University researcher Linda Bartoshuk puts it (SN: 7/12/97, p.
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