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

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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The Science of Taste

The Miraculine has bonded to your sweet receptors and like the more sour the substance is, the more it's now going to register as sweetness. Next, let's try the dill pickles. Ah! Oh. Oh, ah. It's weird. It almost tastes artificial. What it does is it pushes down the sourness with this intense heavy layer of sweet. The sourness isn't gone.

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