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Umami Mama
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Is There a Fat Taste in the Brain?
All taste is hard to isolate from the other senses, but fat is particularly tricky. Fat plays a fundamental role in the texture, the touch of foods. We know that we smell fat, and we know that we sense the of fat, but the next question is whether we also taste fat? To test taste and taste receptors and isolation, camilla rigged up some pretty wild experiments. There was something we were registering that was different between these two. Some promising evidence of a signal of fat taste being processed in the brain. But what exactly is going on, we're not sure.
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