Comments on: “Fat” Officially the Sixth Taste — And If You’re Good at Tasting It, You May Be Skinnier http://www.geekosystem.com/fat-sixth-taste/ Let Yr Geek Flag Fly Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: Robert Quigley http://www.geekosystem.com/fat-sixth-taste/#comment-233 Robert Quigley Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:07:38 +0000 http://www.geekosystem.com/?p=8516#comment-233 @Kerensky97 fair point -- though in this case, the scientist in question actually gave them that soundbite: -- "Through our study we can conclude that humans have a sixth taste -- fat." (cf. AFP article) Not that that makes the analogue accurate. @Kerensky97 fair point — though in this case, the scientist in question actually gave them that soundbite: — “Through our study we can conclude that humans have a sixth taste — fat.” (cf. AFP article)

Not that that makes the analogue accurate.

]]> By: Kerensky97 http://www.geekosystem.com/fat-sixth-taste/#comment-232 Kerensky97 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:36:04 +0000 http://www.geekosystem.com/?p=8516#comment-232 I hate articles that treat fats and fatty acids as the same thing. Everybody can taste fatty acids, ever drink rotten milk? Rancid butter? Welcome to fatty acids. Three fatty acids come together to form a triglyceride or what we consider fat. When the fat break down and the fatty acids break off you get the sour flavor of rotten milk. I challenge anybody to NOT taste that. People who are more susceptible to to tasting the rotten bits of broken down fats are less likely to eat fat. No shit, when milk tastes rotten I don't eat it either. I hate articles that treat fats and fatty acids as the same thing.

Everybody can taste fatty acids, ever drink rotten milk? Rancid butter? Welcome to fatty acids.

Three fatty acids come together to form a triglyceride or what we consider fat. When the fat break down and the fatty acids break off you get the sour flavor of rotten milk. I challenge anybody to NOT taste that.

People who are more susceptible to to tasting the rotten bits of broken down fats are less likely to eat fat. No shit, when milk tastes rotten I don’t eat it either.

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