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Two patients have been found who could not recognize the taste of any sweet substances. This has afforded us apparently the first opportunity to study this phenomenon; we have called it aglycogeusia.
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HENKIN, R., SHALLENBERGER, R. Aglycogeusia: the Inability to recognize Sweetness and its Possible Molecular Basis. Nature 227, 965–966 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227965a0
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