Taste Tricks, now HERE is GOOD news!!

[Brutuskend]

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Scientists are now perfecting a new class of food additives that can trick the tongue into tasting flavors that aren?t there, or ignoring ones that are. When these chemicals hit the market in a few years, they may cause the biggest change in the way food is prepared since the invention of the spice grinder. Diet soda would taste like regular soda, saltaholics could cut back on the sodium and never know the difference, and children would eat their broccoli without a fuss. ?In terms of understanding the molecules involved in detecting specific tastes, progress in the past three or four years has been stupendous,? says Gary Beauchamp, director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. Researchers have largely solved how the tongue tastes.

 

[BaboonGuy]

its like food coloring for the mouth not eye!

 

[SWirth86]

What a stupid idea.

 

[Crazymofo]

and after 20 years of ingesting the new taste chemicals we'll see this headline... "new taste chemicals account for 1 in 10 cancer cases!"

 

[FrustratedUser]

If diet soda will taste like real soda.... I am switching.

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: Crazymofo
and after 20 years of ingesting the new taste chemicals we'll see this headline... "new taste chemicals account for 1 in 10 cancer cases!"

Meh, what doesn't cause cancer now a days.