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Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat

Posted by timothy on from the visit-the-chiba-clinic-for-an-upgrade dept.

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."

3 of 210 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Show me the receptors by Mindcontrolled · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sure, no question about that. I am just interested how that works.

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  2. Re:The Bastard Broadcasting Company had a doc on i by Cylix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wrong

    Our brains run on drugs.

    I know because the national ad council told me so. It was this egg and frying pan explanation and I'm pretty sure that was the gist of the demo.

    In any event, I'm almost certain our brains need drugs or else they wouldn't have shown such a tasty egg.

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  3. Re:The Bastard Broadcasting Company had a doc on i by interkin3tic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Our brains run on ATP.

    MY brain runs mostly on GTP, caffeine, and spite, you insensitive clod!