Using a hole punch, put a hole in a 1 inch square of waxed paper. Dab some blue food coloring on your tongue. It should turn blue, with the exception of tiny pink circles. Those are fungicform papillae, and each contains six to 15 tast buds. Place the waxed paper over the blue area of your tongue and count the pink circles in the hole that you punched out. If you have more than 25 pink circles, you are a supertaster.
Using a hole punch, put a hole in a 1 inch square of waxed paper. Dab some blue food coloring on your tongue. It should turn blue, with the exception of tiny pink circles. Those are fungicform papillae, and each contains six to 15 tast buds. Place the waxed paper over the blue area of your tongue and count the pink circles in the hole that you punched out. If you have more than 25 pink circles, you are a supertaster.
Okay, someone go do that and report back. (laugh)
nancy
Maybe Sandra Lee will have a program on this, incorporating it with using the left-overs on cupcakes. Dee Dee
Using a hole punch, put a hole in a 1 inch square of waxed paper. Dab some blue food coloring on your tongue. It should turn blue, with the exception of tiny pink circles. Those are fungicform papillae, and each contains six to 15 tast buds. Place the waxed paper over the blue area of your tongue and count the pink circles in the hole that you punched out. If you have more than 25 pink circles, you are a supertaster.
Okay, someone go do that and report back. (laugh)
nancy
Don't have to, already found it out. It's scary. When it is good it is very good, but when it is bad-- don't get between me and a sink.
Don't have to, already found it out. It's scary. When it is good it is very good, but when it is bad-- don't get between me and a sink.
No kidding! For whatever reason the article focused on vegetables, do you find that you react strongly to different ones?
nancy
As a picky eater, it's nice to be scientifically vindicated <G>! Now, if only this information had been available 40+ years ago! I might not have had to endure hours of suffering due to parental torture at the dinner table.
Don't have to, already found it out. It's scary. When it is good it is very good, but when it is bad-- don't get between me and a sink.
No kidding! For whatever reason the article focused on vegetables, do you find that you react strongly to different ones?
nancy
I find it variable, but artificial flavors or off-scents or flavors are the worst and I detect them before anybody else. Same for scents, like certain shampoos can nauseate me.
The good part is I can almost always copy something I've eaten and liked. The exception is if I have never run into a certain ingredient. Cannot even contemplate durian, from what others say.
Nancy Young wrote: > I read this in Good Housekeeping ... > > Are you a Supertaster? Don't have to, already found it out. It's scary. When it is good it is very good, but when it is bad-- don't get between me and a sink.
No kidding! For whatever reason the article focused on vegetables, do you find that you react strongly to different ones?
nancy
As a picky eater, it's nice to be scientifically vindicated <G>! Now, if only this information had been available 40+ years ago! I might not have had to endure hours of suffering due to parental torture at the dinner table.
Sky, who still doesn't eat cooked green veggies!
I think you're making excuses, because I do with relish.
As a picky eater, it's nice to be scientifically vindicated <G>! Now, if only this information had been available 40+ years ago! I might not have had to endure hours of suffering due to parental torture at the dinner table.
Sky, who still doesn't eat cooked green veggies!
I think you're making excuses, because I do with relish.
I've never heard of using pickle or any other sort of relish as a condiment for cooked green veggies. I do like a Kosher pickle every once in awhile, but the combination of pickle relish and cooked green veggies just does not sound very appetizing to me. But, I've heard of worse combinations 😉
No kidding! For whatever reason the article focused on vegetables, do you find that you react strongly to different ones?
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Cannot even contemplate durian, from what others say.
I'm probably the opposite of a supertaster and I wouldn't try that on a bet. Anytime someone says Once you get past the smell, forget about it! I couldn't care less what it tastes like if it stinks.
Hence my aversion to curry, and my failure to understand why other people don't notice that stench. Heh, sorry. I really don't get it and I'm not eating it.
Using a hole punch, put a hole in a 1 inch square of waxed paper. Dab some blue food coloring on your tongue. It should turn blue, with the exception of tiny pink circles. Those are fungicform papillae, and each contains six to 15 tast buds. Place the waxed paper over the blue area of your tongue and count the pink circles in the hole that you punched out. If you have more than 25 pink circles, you are a supertaster.
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Okay, someone go do that and report back. (laugh)
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nancy
Maybe Sandra Lee will have a program on this, incorporating it with using the left-overs on cupcakes. Dee Dee- Hide quoted text -
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Hard to imagine a great pink and blue tablescape, though....
Using a hole punch, put a hole in a 1 inch square of waxed paper. Dab some blue food coloring on your tongue. It should turn blue, with the exception of tiny pink circles. Those are fungicform papillae, and each contains six to 15 tast buds. Place the waxed paper over the blue area of your tongue and count the pink circles in the hole that you punched out. If you have more than 25 pink circles, you are a supertaster.
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Okay, someone go do that and report back. (laugh)
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nancy
Maybe Sandra Lee will have a program on this, incorporating it with using the left-overs on cupcakes. Dee Dee- Hide quoted text -
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Hard to imagine a great pink and blue tablescape, though....
N.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe at a baby shower where the expectant mother has *not* been told the sex of the child?
Jill <---never seen Sandra Lee and knows she's not missing anything!
