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

Marc Verhaegen wrote:
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> "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).

Four of them are much more obvious than the other three.
I use MSG when I make spiedie sauce
http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/harmonj/atlas/spiedie.htm
and I've tasted it pure.
Pure MSG on the tongue, really doesn't taste like very much.

The most astringent thing that I've ever tasted,
is a petal from a banana flower.
The second most astringent thing I've ever tasted,
was a Benadryl capsule that disolved in my mouth
before I could swallow it.
I mostly recall the astringent sensation,
occuring over the entire inside of my mouth,
rather than being localised on my tongue.

--
pete
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