Are YOU a 'Sour Patch' adult? One in eight people enjoy intensely tart sensations, 熟考する／考慮する 明らかにする／漏らすs
- 'Sour Patch Adults' （不足などを）補う around 12 per cent of the 全住民
- These people 活発に enjoy intensely sour sensations, scientists say?
If you went into a 甘い shop, what would your go-to 選択 be?
If the answer is 有毒な Waste, 弾頭s, or Sour Patch Kids, you might be what scientists have coined a 'Sour Patch Adult.'
'Sour Patch Adults' （不足などを）補う around 12 per cent of the 全住民, and enjoy intensely sour sensations, によれば 研究員s from Penn 明言する／公表する University.
'This is the first time it's been convincingly shown that there is a segment of adults who likes 堅固に sour things,' said Professor John Haye, an author of the 熟考する／考慮する.
If you went into a 甘い shop, what would your go-to 選択 be? If the answer is 有毒な Waste, 弾頭s, or Sour Patch Kids, you might be what scientists have coined a 'Sour Patch Adult' (在庫／株 image)
によれば previous 熟考する／考慮するs, 概略で one in three children enjoy intensely sour flavours.
However, until now, this has not been 実験（する）d in adults.
'Think about candies like 弾頭s and Sour Patch Kids,' Professor Hayes said.
'The market tells us that there must be some people who enjoy them into adulthood, but now we have an 見積（る） of how many.'
In the 熟考する／考慮する, the team 手段d the 返答s of 143 American adults and 350 Italian adults to さまざまな levels of citric 酸性の.
The 関係者s were asked to 率 the intensity and liking of a 範囲 of 見本s of 変化させるing sourness.
For both the Italian and American cohorts, the 研究員s discovered three 際立った patterns of 返答.
About 70 per cent of 関係者s fell into a strong 消極的な group, in which liking dropped with 増加するd sourness (在庫／株 image)
Firstly, about 70 per cent of 関係者s fell into a strong 消極的な group, in which liking dropped with 増加するd sourness.
Next, around 12 per cent were in an 中間の group, and showed a more muted 減少（する） in liking with more sourness.
Finally, around 12 per cent were in a strong 肯定的な group, in which liking 増加するd with more sourness.
'Most people didn't like sourness, so if you just 普通の／平均（する） across the entire group, then you'd 結論する that more sour equals bad,' Professor Hayes said.
'But if you dig deeper, you find 抱擁する differences across people.'
Both the Italian and American groups showed 類似の 割合s, which 示唆するs that these may be stable across cultures, によれば the 研究員s.
'Italian food culture and American food culture are so wildly different,' said Sara Spinelli, a 研究員 from the University of Florence in Italy and first author on the paper.
'And yet we 結局最後にはーなる with almost 同一の 百分率s, which 示唆するs to us this is not an 影響 of 事前の （危険などに）さらす. It's probably something innately different about those people.
'We don't know what that is, but it tells us that it's not just the foods you grew up with.'
The 研究員s believe the findings could be used to develop tailored 製品s for 'Sour Patch Adults'.
'This could 最終的に serve to 促進する the 消費 of healthier foods and （水以外の）飲料s that are lower in sweetness but still 許容できる to 消費者s,' Professor Hayes 結論するd.
