Link Between Obesity And Inability To Taste A Bitter Compound

Whether or not you can taste a bitter compound called 6-n-propylthiouracil (or PROP) may help Professor Beverly Tepper identify your risk for becoming obese and/or developing cardiovascular disease. Tepper is a professor in the Food Science Department at Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and she’s an American Heart Association-funded researcher…