Hacking Taste

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Taste is the oldest of our five senses, and yet perhaps the least understood. It’s far more complicated than salty versus sweet: new research is dramatically expanding our knowledge of taste, showing that it’s intimately connected to obesity, mood, immunity, and more. In this episode, we get into the science of how taste works, why we taste what we do, and what makes supertasters unique. And finally, we hack our taste buds—for fun, but, in the future, maybe for health, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	One, two, three.
0:04.6	Oh, it's like lemonade.
0:07.0	It's weird.
0:08.0	It's just like, what?
0:10.0	Why is this so delicious?
0:12.0	What the hell?
0:14.0	What have you done to me?
0:21.0	So before one of our pop-up magazine shows, a handful of the crew and performers let us
0:25.0	put red pills on their tongues without having any idea what they were taking and what
0:29.5	they were in for.
0:30.5	Hey, we're good people, and it's not like we didn't do it ourselves.
0:34.0	But I must admit, it was amazing how easy it was to get people to take pills without
0:40.0	telling them what they were.
0:41.3	We'll tell you what those pills were later on, but for now, what you need to know is
0:45.0	that we were screwing with their taste buds.
0:47.0	That's right, this episode we're going to get to the bottom of our sense of taste.
0:51.5	How does it work and how can we mess with it?
0:53.9	Why do we taste the things we taste?
0:56.1	And can the answers to these questions help us hack taste to tackle some of today's
0:59.8	biggest health problems?
1:01.1	You're listening to Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science
1:04.7	and history.
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