7 tastes (Re: Morphological evidence of marine adaptations in human kidneys

"pete" <pfiland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> ... and those are the four tastes of the tongue.

They already descirbe 7 tastes today: salt, sour, bitter, sweet, unami
(glutamate), astringent (C.Burr 2002 "Emperor of scent" Random House) & fat
(in mice & probably in humans).

--Marc


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