{"id":38249,"date":"2024-04-29T13:57:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/flavorama-guides-readers-through-the-complex-landscape-of-flavor\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:57:56","slug":"flavorama-guides-readers-through-the-complex-landscape-of-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/flavorama-guides-readers-through-the-complex-landscape-of-flavor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flavorama\u2019 guides readers through the complex landscape of flavor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flavorama<\/a>Arielle Johnson<\/em>Harvest, $40.00<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What gives a lemon its lemoniness? It\u2019s the physical molecules within the fruit. A bite into a lemon wedge sends citric acid molecules and other compounds to the tongue and through the nose, a one-two punch of the sour taste and citrusy scent that the brain senses as lemony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a combination of taste and smell makes flavor a challenge for people who want to master it. There are five distinct tastes \u2014 salty, sour<\/a>, sweet, umami and bitter \u2014 and the tongue has dedicated receptors for detecting molecules that correspond to each one (SN: 1\/25\/16<\/em>). Smell is more complicated, with about 400 types of smell receptors in the nose<\/a> that capture signals from many, many different molecules (SN: 3\/20\/14<\/em>). Taken together, this means a near-infinite number of flavors exists.<\/p>\n\n\n