Phenylthiocarbamide

Japanese: phenylthiocarbamide
Phenylthiocarbamide


[Taste blindness]
There is no known case of taste blindness in which one of the four basic tastes cannot be detected. However, there are people who can detect the bitter taste of phenylthiocarbamide (abbreviated as PTC) and people who cannot detect it, and the latter are called taste blind. However, the thresholds for the four basic tastes do not change.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "phenylthiocarbamide" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[味盲taste blindness]
 四基本味のうちの一つがわからないような味盲は知られていない。しかし,フェニルチオカルバミドphenylthiocarbamide(PTCと略記)の苦味がわかる人とわからない人があり,後者を味盲と呼んでいる。しかし四基本味に対する閾値は変わらない。…

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