TASTE BUDDIES: Feeling Salty?

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today, we're getting salty as we continue our series "Taste Buddies" — Short Wave's ode to taste buds. In this encore episode, Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber goes on a salty flavor journey with scientist Julie Yu. Along the way, Julie explains salt's essential role in our daily lives and how it affects our perception of food. Follow Regina on Twitter @ScienceRegina. Reach the show by sending an email to [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	Sopnerd's host Emily Quang here with
0:07.0	Scientist and Residence Regina Barber.
0:09.0	Regina, hey, hey, you're bringing our next
0:12.0	installment of our series that is just
0:14.0	a bid to eat good food.
0:15.0	Yeah. It is called Taste Buddies.
0:17.0	And today we're going to talk about salt.
0:19.0	I love salt. Me too.
0:20.0	So excited for this.
0:21.0	Yeah, I love salt.
0:22.0	It brings back fond memories of my mom's cooking.
0:25.0	She had so many delicious dinners or
0:27.0	there was a lot of soy sauce and perfectly
0:29.0	seasoned vegetables.
0:30.0	I mean, you know what's up being Chinese
0:32.0	American also, right?
0:33.0	Em.
0:34.0	We love our salt.
0:35.0	My dad eats sardines straight out of the
0:37.0	tin and we have all these salt preserved
0:39.0	foods just randomly around the house.
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