The Bitter Truth

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It’s one of the five basic tastes, along with salty, sweet, sour, and umami. It’s also the least popular and the most mysterious. “That tastes bitter” is not usually a compliment, and yet scientists are increasingly concerned that by banishing bitter from our diets, we’re affecting our health in ways we don’t fully understand. In this episode, we get to know bitter a little better, finding good reasons and new ways to appreciate its complex charms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The cinematic experience of the summer is finally here.
0:05.8	Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an epic thriller about the man who
0:10.4	risked destroying the world for the one chance to save it, featuring an incredible cast
0:14.7	including Robert Downey Jr. Emily Bluntz, Oscar winners Matt Damon and Kenneth Brenna,
0:19.8	Oscar nominee Florence Pew and Killian Murphy as Jay Robert Oppenheimer.
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1:25.1	And that is just what we're going to do today here on Gastropod.
1:38.3	I'm Cynthia Graber and I'm Nicola Twilly and that was Jennifer McClaggan sharing her
1:42.8	sadness about the sweetness of today's grapefruit.
1:46.3	She's the author of a new cookbook that gets deep into the history and science of bitter.
1:50.7	In fact, the book is called Bitter, a taste of the world's most dangerous flavor.
1:55.7	Scary stuff.
1:56.7	Bitter is one of the so-called basic tastes, you know, like salt and sugar and so on, but
2:01.9	it's a funny one.
2:02.9	It's one of the most maligned and one of the least understood tastes.
2:06.2	And yet there's also some new science showing how important it is in ways we never even
2:10.8	imagined.
2:11.8	Plus, it can actually taste good in moderation.
2:15.2	First, to start off the show, we have one basic question.
2:18.8	What is bitter?
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