Guest guest Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 Salt is a good, and essential, " thing " , IMO. We have taste buds for identifying it. I personally like the taste of salt. tev Seen here at 75 times their size, human taste buds line the surface of the tongue and portions of the mouth. Taste buds pick up only four sensations (sweet, sour, salty, and bitter), but these are combined with the sense of smell to give various foods their unique tastes. http://encarta.msn.com/media_461533198/Human_Taste_Buds.html Various genes related to early events in human gustation have recently been discovered, yet a thorough understanding of taste transduction is hampered by gaps in our knowledge of the signaling chain. As a first step toward gaining additional insight, the expression specificity of genes in human taste tissue needs to be determined. http://chemse.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/1/13 The ability to taste food is a life-and-death matter. Failure to recognise food with a high enough caloric content could mean a slow death from malnutrition. Failure to detect a poison could result in near-instant expiration. And now, as researchers begin to understand some of the nuts and bolts of taste perception, it seems that the sense of taste may also have more subtle effects on health. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document & doi=10.1371/journal.\ pbio.0020064 --- Froggy <seconaphim wrote: > I knew it was a bad thing, my taste buds and my > intuition just tell > me so. That's why I don't eat it. > > Rich ===== [...there'll be love and laughter, and peace ever after, just you wait and see... ---Vera Lynn] Celebrate 's 10th Birthday! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday./netrospective/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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