Re: Change One Thing


Joseph Michael Bay wrote:
> "rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx" <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >David Loewe, Jr. wrote:
>
> >> that Heinz ketchup is unique (or near unique) amongst foods as it
> >> stimulates ALL of the different kinds of taste buds in your mouth.
>
> >Huh. Wikipedia says that we don't have different taste regions on the
> >tongue. One of the cited sources says "we perceive all taste qualities
> >all over our tongue, although there may be increased sensitivity to
> >certain qualities in certain areas."

I'll interrupt myself to say that this wasn't meant as a direct
response to David's statement, just an expression of surprise. Nor am
I sure it's true. It's only Wikipedia and a couple of other pages.
You could /fake/ that.

I suppose I can experiment with a little salt where supposedly you
don't taste salt, and so on.

I'm not clear on the distinction between sour and bitter, as
experiences, if bitter is distinct from acid. I suppose I avoid both.

> >I had a theory that saccharin has
> >an unpleasant aftertaste because it's actually a salt, which it is, and
> >it lingered more on the salt regions of the tongue, which is now
> >contradicted.

- or in the back of the mouth, come to think.

> Maybe the salt perception outlasts the sweetness perception?

Could be. I started thinking about afterimage on the retina or
maxing-out brain cells, and about how a sweet flavour biases the palate
to prefer sweet flavours afterwards - and you need a bigger dose to get
the same high. If the salt response is different - it's described as
an "ion channel" -

So anyway, if saccharin hangs around in the mouth after swallowing,
maybe the sweet buds time-out and the salt buds keep signalling, so the
message shifts from "sweet" to "salt".

.

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