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Ep 204: A Scientist in the Kitchen
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
Plant Biochemistry
Plants have evolved fantastic mechanisms to prevent animals from beating it. A fruit is basically the pinnacle of plant byo chemistry, in creating something that requires no cooking. Most of our tastiest spices have sulphurous molecules which a cow or a hurbevor find very nasty. But once you cook them, we're taming those reactions so that we can actually eat them. So for us a we've managed to kind of figure out how to get past the diffence mechanisns.
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