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The Mystery of Taste: Beyond Sweet, Sour, Salty & Bitter

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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The Effects of Sugar on the Body

We don't know much about how salt taste works, but it's become public enemy number one. Our bodies need sugar like sugar is pure energy; we've evolved to really love it. We're no longer in the environment where we'd get sugar from berries on bushes. Is there a way we could trick our body into thinking something is sweet that is not full of sugar?

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