Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat
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ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."
There's something else (Score:4, Funny)
What the summary doesn't mention is that the BMIs of the sample group were inversely proportional to their ability to sense fat.
Re:Show me the receptors (Score:5, Funny)
I'll notify the British Journal of Nutrition that their published research is invalid.
Re:Show me the receptors (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps you missed that part of the summary (let alone TFA).
What about electricity? (Score:5, Funny)
You know... for when you're testing 9 volt batteries.
The Bastard Broadcasting Company had a doc on it (Score:3, Funny)
Those scumbags had a documentary on fat in our food and how we as humans have evolved because of it and become very good at eating very fatty food. And they showed it all with constant displays of fat food... succulent beef, silky smooth chocolate, whipped cream, bacon and eggs... I gained ten pounds just watching and at the end ate my remote control.
On the whole, I have to say they got a point. Fat tastes good. Some animals have learned to eat/detect certain muds because they need the minerals in them. Our brain needs fat to fuel itself, so we have learned to tast fat.
Now if you excuse me, I got to devour a liter of icecream... mmm.
Re:but why? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Show me the receptors (Score:4, Funny)
Re:the Calcium taste buds weren't listed (Score:3, Funny)
Picante has also been described as ALL of your tastebuds being forcibly activated at once in a sort of brute force sort of way as if they had been forced open by crowbars.
So Picante is just gastronomic napalm.
Re:What about electricity? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm sure the poster would have chosen DC had it been an option. AC was the closest possibility.
Re:A special category of first post for science (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What about electricity? (Score:1, Funny)
It was actually a DC post. I've never seen an AC battery.
Re:Show me the receptors (Score:5, Funny)
That's also what she said.
Re:What about electricity? (Score:3, Funny)
"Real men" know that wall warts don't go flat.
Sweet, bitter, now fat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:There's something else (Score:3, Funny)
That's the easy way out. You're never going to sell any diet books like that. You've got to have a "system", and if you can tie it into merchandise, especially consumable merchandise like food, then so much the better.