{"id":3062,"date":"2010-03-11T07:13:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2010-03-11T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:18:44","slug":"researchers-say-that-fat-may-actually-be-a-flavour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/researchers-say-that-fat-may-actually-be-a-flavour\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers say that fat may actually be a flavour"},"content":{"rendered":"

This may provide some clues to obesity, as tests show that some people can detect fat<\/a> at much lower concentrations . . . and therefore consume less:<\/p>\n

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It’s a theory set to confirm why humans are so fond of fatty foods such as chips and chocolate cake: in addition to the five tastes already identified lurks another detectable by the palate — fat.<\/p>\n

“We know that the human tongue can detect five tastes — sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami (a savoury, protein-rich taste contained in foods such as soy sauce and chicken stock),” Russell Keast, from Deakin University, said Monday.<\/p>\n

“Through our study we can conclude that humans have a sixth taste — fat.”<\/p>\n

Researchers tested 30 people’s ability to taste a range of fatty acids in otherwise plain solutions and found that all were able to determine the taste — though some required higher concentrations than others.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The results, published in the British Journal of Nutrition<\/em>, have not definitively classified fat as a taste but Keast says the evidence is strong and mounting.<\/p>\n

For something to be classified as a taste there needed to be proven receptor mechanisms on taste cells in the mouth, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This may provide some clues to obesity, as tests show that some people can detect fat at much lower concentrations . . . and therefore consume less: It’s a theory set to confirm why humans are so fond of fatty foods such as chips and chocolate cake: in addition to the five tastes already identified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,66],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-science","tag-bmi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-No","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}