supertasters. You can find out whether you are one by putting blue food coloring on your tongue, and then asking a friend to count your still-pink taste buds. Your fungiform papillae, where the taste buds lie, don’t absorb the coloring. As a simpler procedure, you can get hold of some paper with 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) on it (accessible online) and stick it in your mouth. If it tastes like paper, you are like most people; if it is unpleasant and bitter, congratulations, you are a supertaster!
Bloom, Paul (2010-06-14). How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like (p. 28). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
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