{"id":1727,"date":"2008-10-15T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2008-10-14T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T23:57:31","slug":"your-mystery-taste-receptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/your-mystery-taste-receptor\/","title":{"rendered":"Your ‘Mystery’ Taste Receptor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Can you name the five human taste receptors? Most of us think of sweet, sour, salty… from there maybe some of us will remember bitter. But I bet you wouldn’t have guessed umami.<\/p>\n

Umami is a Japanese word meaning “savory.” It’s attributed to responding to the taste of meats and cheeses. I dug up an audio piece<\/a> that examines the history of umami and the controversy over whether it exists at all.<\/p>\n

But wait, there may be more!<\/p>\n

Do you wonder why you crave fried or fatty foods? When you drive by a fast food<\/a> restaurant does it seem to have a magnetic pull? The answer, again, may be in your taste buds<\/a>. Scientists have discovered taste receptors in the tongue that sense fat.<\/p>\n

Some researchers believe having taste receptors for fat may have had evolutionary implications, in that it helped ensure animals eat a high energy diet when food was scarce.<\/p>\n

With those of us in the Western world not having a problem with food being scarce, the fat taste receptor poses a bit of a problem.<\/p>\n

“There is evidence that obesity may be associated with an abnormal brain response to the sensory perception of a meal,” says Professor Nada Abumrad of Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you name the five human taste receptors? Most of us think of sweet, sour, salty… from there maybe some of us will remember bitter. But I bet you wouldn’t have guessed umami. Umami is a Japanese word meaning “savory.” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687,16],"tags":[1371,169,31,7950,1854,7949,167,7951],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","category-recipes","tag-body-fat","tag-fried-food","tag-health-news","tag-nada-abumrad","tag-taste","tag-taste-buds","tag-umami","tag-washington-university-school-of-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}