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The indignious people say it tastes spicy, I think thats awesome to have naturally spicy meats.
by m3kw9 4y ago
The indignious people say it tastes spicy, I think thats awesome to have naturally spicy meats.
- dylan604 4y agowhich is interesting that it hits those specific taste buds vs the sweet or salty parts. my first guess would have been it would affect them all equally. do we have more spicy receptors vs the other types so that if they are all being hit equally, spicy wins?
- m3kw9 4y agoLikely the chemical structure is similar to “hotness”
- carabiner 4y agoAll taste buds can detect all basic tastes, and the taste map we saw as a kid is wrong. https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id=157007 https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id...
- dylan604 4y agooh gawd, next you're going to tell me that we no longer need 2 spaces at the end of a sentence after punctuation.
- inkcapmushroom 4y agoSpicy is technically not a taste, and our taste buds don't process spicy the same way other tastes are processed. It's instead a low level of pain sensation, which we interpret as a flavor when mixed with other "real" flavors. The same nerves which sense the spicy pain sensation also sense touch and heat, so the latter is probably why we associate spicy foods with a feeling of hotness. This is probably why spicy sensations can overrun other tastes so easily, because our bodies' pain reactions are very strong.
- ftxbro 4y agothey are downvoting you, but you're right. i learned it when i was curious how astringency was tasted