Updating the Mary Poppins solution with a better bitter blocker
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 21:30
in Mathematics & Economics
With millions of adults and children avoiding nutritious foods because of the bitter taste, and gagging or vomiting when forced to take bitter liquid medicines, scientists have now reported an advance toward a high-tech version of Mary Poppins' solution. It's not a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, but a new and improved "bitterness blocker."