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Abstract
A clinical quantitative test of taste is described. It employs Beebe-Center's standards for use of the gust scale in measuring subjective taste strength. The test is both valid and reliable (test-retest reliability is of the order of 0.8 for the anterior part of the tongue) and the distribution of the results is known. The mean threshold for sucrose and sodium chloride appears to be approximately normally distributed when expressed in log gusts and, on such a scale, to be linearly related to age. There appears to be a secondary depression of the threshold in women around the age of thirty years.