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Science 1 December 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4064, pp. 988 - 990
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4064.988
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Sweet Taste of Water Induced by Artichoke (Cynara scolymus)

Linda M. Bartoshuk 1, Chi-Hang Lee 2, and Richard Scarpellino 2

1 John B. Pierce Foundation Laboratory and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, 290 Congress Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06519
2 General Foods Corporation, Technical Center, White Plains, New York 10625

Exposure of the tongue to artichoke can make water taste sweet. Two major active components of artichoke are the salts of chlorogenic acid and cynarin. The sweetening of substances by temporarily modifying the tongue, rather than by adding a substance sweet in itself, may provide an alternative to currently used nonnutritive sweeteners.

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