Crowdsourcing to Challenge Scientific Theory

A widely held theory that "supertasters" have an unusually high density of taste buds on their tongue to be sensitive to bitter tastes, has been disproved by scientific crowd-sourcing, revealed in a study published in the open-access journal emFrontiers in Integrative Neuroscience/em. Supertasters are people who can detect and are extremely sensitive to phenylthiocarbamide and propylthiouracil, two compounds related to the bitter molecules in certain foods such ...