Taste substance

Japanese: taste substance(英語表記)tastesubstance
Taste substance

...PTC taste blindness varies by race, is seen in approximately 7% of Japanese people, and is inherited as a recessive trait.
[Taste substances and taste modifying substances]
Substances that produce a sweet taste include inorganic salts such as lead acetate, D-amino acids, hydrophilic L-amino acids such as L-glycine and L-alanine, the dipeptide aspartame, and sugars such as fructose, glucose, and sucrose. Stevioside, a glycoside contained in the native plant stevia in Paraguay, South America, is also sweet, and is cultivated and extracted domestically as a substitute for artificial sweeteners.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "taste substance" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…PTC味盲は人種差があり,日本人の約7%にみられ劣性遺伝をする。
[呈味物質taste substanceと味を変える物質taste modifying substance]
 甘味を起こす物質には酢酸鉛のような無機の塩,D‐アミノ酸,L‐グリシンやL‐アラニンなど親水性L‐型アミノ酸,ジペプチドのアスパルテーム,果糖,ブドウ糖,ショ糖などの糖類がある。南アメリカのパラグアイの原生植物ステビアに含まれる配糖体のステビオシドも甘く,人工甘味料の代用として国内で栽培,抽出もされている。…

※「taste substance」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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