What's the sourest thing in the world?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Most of us are familiar with the taste of something sour – that tart feeling that makes your eyes close and your facial features squint. Lemons, lime juice, kimchi are all sour - but what is the sourest thing in the world? We asked Janelle Clepper who has a Masters of Public Health in Nutrition from the University of Minnesota to help us figure it out.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:05.9	Answering those questions that make you go,
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0:14.0	uh, um, um, welcome. Um, I'm, uh, I'm, uh,
0:24.0	uh, and uh,
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0:31.0	Welcome to your moment of um from APM studios. I'm Anna Weggle.
0:35.3	It's a whole thing watching videos of babies trying a lemon for the first time
0:40.6	those innocent trusting little humans look at the bright yellow fruit, wide-eyed and
0:45.8	excited. They open their mouths, take a taste, and wait for it. Squish their face into a
0:51.9	tiny dissatisfied mess of a disappointed human thinking, why? Why would you do this to me?
0:58.6	Babies react to this way because lemons are sour.
1:01.6	Eaten on their own, they taste so tart
1:03.6	that they can make people squint their eyes and recoil.
1:06.6	But is there something more sour than a lemon?
1:09.5	Hi, my name is Ellery, and my question is,
1:12.1	what's the sourest thing in the world?
1:14.0	The sourest food in the world is the umaboshi plum.
1:18.0	Other sour foods that you'll recognize are vinegar, lime juice, lemon juice. My name is
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