Fig 6. Lactisole sweet water taste is unaffected by prior sweet receptor activation.
Log10 sweetness ratings are shown for solutions of (a) sucrose and (b) neotame sampled with the tongue tip in 4 conditions: Suc or Neot + Lac: a still lactisole + sweetener mixture (white bars); Lac→Suc or Neot: a still solution of lactisole before a still solution of the sweetener (gray bars); Suc or Neot + Lac → H2O: a still sweetener + lactisole mixture followed by a flowing water rinse (hatched white bars); and Lac→Suc or Neot→H2O: a still solution of lactisole before a still solution of the sweetener followed by a flowing water rinse (hatched gray bars). Shown for comparison is the SWT produced by a flowing water rinse after lactisole alone (dashed line). Vertical bars are the standard errors of the log10 means (SEMs).