GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Umami, Snack, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
27 Oct 2016
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Tongue is most important to taste the flavors of foods: a daunting organ, has to be moisture to taste, has to dissolve whatever solid you"re consuming, 4 fundamental taste: sweet sour bitter and salt. Umami: rue close to taste of absinthe and is the most bitter thing known to man, age reduces taste buds, people are not born to eat certain things. Not born for instinct for salt but is acquired after the age aprox. 4 months: designed to alert people to problems. Knowing if you like it or not like it. Sweet doesn"t alert the brain about harmful stuff while bitter thing do: by the time you reach 60 years you lose 50% of taste buds, ageuisa taste blindness, cannot detect any taste. Aroma can be take 90% of taste we can perceive. Gases are detected olfactoryephithilia: behind the bridge of the nose. Certain smells make the body hairs stand up.
