date:Jun 05, 2012
receptors (hTAS2R4 and hTAS2R14) that are responsible for the detection of the bitter taste notes of the recently approved natural sweetener.
Hofmann and his team noted that the human tongue has just one receptor type for detecting sweetness but about 25 different ones for bitter flavors.
Steviol glycosides activate two bitter receptors on the human tongue, and this elicits a bitter after taste in the mouth, explained Anne Brockhoff, a co-author of the study based at DIfE.
Hoffman said t