Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1910 — Sense of Taste. [ARTICLE]

Sense of Taste.

From a series of experiments recently made at the University of Kansas it is evident that the average person can taste the bitter of quinine when one part is dissolved in 52,000 parts of water. Salt was detected In water when one part to 640 of the liquid was used. Sugar could be tasted in 228 parts of water and common soda in 48. In nearly all cases women could detect a smaller quantity than men.