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It’s all about phospholipids, says John Moore, director of the Institute for Chemical Education at UW-Madison.
Not a flavor guy himself, he poked around and learned that these oily, fatty materials affect receptors that sense the bitter flavor. Detergents in toothpaste, including sodium laurel sulfate, break up phospholipids that are normally on the tongue, Moore says. [...]