Taste

Take a moment from your lunch break to appreciate the sense that makes your meal truly enjoyable: taste. On today’s episode we take a close look at your taste buds. First, producer Audrey Quinn examines the tongue map, a teaching tool designating areas on the tongue that react to the five tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami. But is it accurate? Next, producer Andrew Stelzer talks to the man who put Stevia—a sweetener 300 times sweeter than sugar—on the market.

Show Clock

00:00 Opening Credits
00:32 Introduction
01:11 The Tongue Map Myth
05:02 Stevia: Sweeter than Sugar
12:17 Closing Credits

Credits

Our theme music is composed by Dave Kaufman. Additional music from Music Alley includes “Sugar Bee,” by Robin Syler, and “Sweet,” by Sully Johnson. “Twisted Latin,“ by Lawerence Oakley and Mike Eaves courtesy of DeWolfe Music.

Image courtesy of Flickr user Mike Burns.