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A simple way I was taught by a geneticist was to drink a Diet Coke. If it is sweet you are not a super-taster; if it is bitter you are. For me all diet drinks
by sambeau 9y ago
A simple way I was taught by a geneticist was to drink a Diet Coke. If it is sweet you are not a super-taster; if it is bitter you are.
For me all diet drinks taste very bitter like quinine or biting into a green potato.
- randallsquared 9y agoSurely they taste bitter for everyone at first? You may eventually come to prefer that and find "regular" soda sickly sweet, as I do.
- djur 9y agoDiet cola tasted sweet to me the few times I had it (I don't drink pop generally). Couldn't imagine finding it bitter.
- Nursie 9y agoThis seems an odd test - when I first had diet coke it tasted weird, but it became an acquired taste and now normal coke tastes weird.
- sergiosgc 9y agoIt's a strange test. I can taste the bitter and the sweet in aspartame. Even so, I'd qualify Diet Coke as sweet, even though both tastes are there. Worse, the formula has changed over the years. Diet Coke used to be closer to Coke Zero but, after Coke Zero was launched, drifted to a more bitter taste.