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

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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The Taste of a Lemon

The fruit contains a protein called Miraculin, which is basically binding to our sweet taste receptors as we roll this around in our mouth. And it's shifting them so that they're going to be activated by sour things. "I love hijacking my body's natural responses," he says.

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