The Science of Flavor with Arielle Johnson

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What is flavor? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the science of what makes some foods tastier than others, what is “umami,” and how flavor changed in the 20th century with food scientist Arielle Johnson.

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0:00.0	Chuck, I don't know if that episode made me more hungry or less hungry.
0:03.4	I think if we're talking about stinky herrings and less hungry, I'm going with less hungry.
0:10.1	You're going with less.
0:11.2	Yeah.
0:12.6	That was like so many elements and aspects of food
0:16.1	that I hadn't even imagined, and we just began to plumb
0:20.0	the depths of it.
0:21.1	Yeah.
0:21.6	But here it is.
0:23.0	Flavor honor all the way.
0:24.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:28.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:34.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:39.0	This is Star Talk, special edition.
0:42.0	Got with me my usual co-host, Gary O'Reilly, Gary.
0:46.1	Hi, Neo. Hey, hey, former soccer pro, turned soccer announcer, and we get to share you with the soccer universe.
0:53.6	Thanks for being part of the Dark Talk family.
0:56.2	And of course Chuck Nice, Chuck Y, baby.
0:57.7	Hey, what's happening?
0:58.7	Gary, you and your producers put this together.
1:01.7	So give me the setup for this. this okay so I suppose we all do it we all eat you
1:06.4	think okay what is need fuel we shovel it in and we burn it up into your piehole. Yep in their piehole then it goes but how many of us stop to consider the fundamentals of what we eat such as flavor?
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