Archive for November, 2007
Taste
The other day I was talking to my daughter about taste and taste buds. I started to name the ‘five’ areas of taste. Sweet, sour, salty, bitter and…and. Are there only four? I thought there were five. Later, we were at a bookstore so we looked at an human body book for young people and it illustrated the four areas of taste. So that settled it it is four. Until…this morning on the drive in to school on NPR they were talking about taste and my instict was right. There is a fifth sense of taste: Umami.
