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Column 2 |
Para 1 |
- coffee, broccoli, brussels sprouts, Christmas vegetables
- genetics and taste
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- sense of taste
- partly genetic
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Para 2 |
- lemons, sprouts
- supertasters
- 25% of the UK population
- 2X taste buds
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- supertasters = more taste buds
- sensitive
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Para 3 |
- thermal tasters
- temperature
- ice cube = salty or sour
- hot = sweet
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- thermal tasters
- temperature
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Para 4 |
- genetic variant
- coriander, taste + smell = soapy
- Dr. Barry Smith, philosophy
- Centre for the Study of the Senses, director
- University of London
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- genetic variant
- coriander, taste + smell = soapy
- Dr. Barry Smith
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Para 5 |
- smell and taste
- Dr. Charles Spence, experimental psychology at Oxford University
- neurogastronomy
- chefs, big companies & top restaurants
- orbitofrontal cortex
- receptors send to forehead
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- smell
- Dr. Charles Spence
- neurogastronomy
- orbitofrontal cortex
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Para 6 |
- Dr. Spence: colour, lighting, and ambience impact our perception of taste
- red-coloured food = sweet
- plate color has impact
- playing music or sounds has impact
- crunch of crisps has impact
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- Dr. Spence
- color
- lighting
- ambience (plates)
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Para 7 |
- public health
- Dr. Smith
- problem to too much salt
- salt molecule
- future of food science
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- consequences for public health
- example = reducing salt
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Para 8 |
- children
- picky eaters
- taste bitterness more than adults
- sensitive to chemicals like supertasters
- learn to put smell and taste together
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Para 9 |
- supertaster gene
- evolutionary past
- dangerous foods
- toxins
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Para 10 |
- alcohol
- coffee
- learning to love food
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