Umami: You never say its name, yet you taste it every day
Umami: You never say its name, yet you taste it every day
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
The Fifth Taste....
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What tf happened to Spicy?
Capsaicin doesn't interact with your taste buds, it reacts with your pain receptors. Spicy isn't a taste it's a "feeling"
Spicy can be several things. I associate it mostly with chili heat (capsaicin fucking with your vanillin receptors for heat and pain) but people also call black pepper, onion and garlic spicy. They all have different "mechanisms of action". I have no idea why e.g. chili heat isn't considered a "taste", but apparently it's not.
Wasabi is its own type of spicy too (apparently the same type as radishes!)
That makes sense given that Wasabi is an extra-spicy green type of horseradish. (Mustard and radishes are similar too btw.)
You know, somehow I never connected the dots that horseradishes must be related to radishes... 🤦♂️
Good to see that I'm not the only braindead one in here