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Science 22 October 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3695, pp. 506 - 507
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3695.506
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Dulcin and Saccharin Taste in Squirrel Monkeys, Rats, and Men

G. L. Fisher 1, Carl Pfaffmann 2, and Elliott Brown 3

1 Psychology Department, University of Maryland, College Park
2 Rockefeller University, New York
3 Astor Home, Rhinebeck, New York

In a taste-preference comparison of sweetening agents, men reacted positively to two nonnutritive sweeteners, dulcin and sodium saccharin; rats preferred only saccharin and squirrel monkeys, only dulcin.

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