All the Feels: How Texture Makes Taste
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The Effects of Gravity on Muscle Structure
In real life, most of the things we eat aren't just a single texture. Almost all foods will release a multiple series of textures and also they change with time. Cooking can make tough meat tender by breaking down the fibers that keep it so tough. In an egg, cooking makes proteins clump together or rather coagulate, and so they're not fluid anymore. So, so far we figured out how we sense textures like creamy and crunchy in our mouths,. Also what makes certain foods have certain textures like tough versus tender.
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