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  • From: Don Yellman <dyellman@earthlink.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] what do apples taste like?
  • Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:32:35 -0500

Ed Fackler wrote:
Donna:
Interesting commentary about flavor preferences.
While I'm not at all schooled (academically) in such things, my well-over 50 year experiences in eating palatable food and making related judgements are as follows.
1. Food (of any type) tastes much better when one is hungry.
2. Food (of any type) tastes less desirable when not hungry.
ed, Mid-Ohio, still much to learn!!!!

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I think the trick would be to find some extremes, and group taste
buds accordingly. For example, years ago when I was sampling lots
of weird citrus from the Fla Budwood collection, I found a pummelo
and a pummelo hybrid that were at opposite ends of the "grapefuit"
flavor spectrum. I took them to a Florida grapefruit nut to find
out what she thought of them. She hated "Thong Dee", which was
bitter but not sour, and loved "Smooth Flat Seville" which was sour
but not bitter. My opinion was just the opposite. Tastes change with age and health, with children very sensitive
to bitter flavors but generally liking sour things. According to
Chinese medicine, our tastes change with our emotions. If "kidney"
function is poor (this includes adrenals in TCM) a person will be
fearful and will crave salt. Sour, bitter, sweet, and pungent
flavors are all associated with health and mood. It has been found
by western reseachers that when a person is griefstricken, bitter
foods are intolerably bitter. As bitterness is associated with joy
in TCM, it may be that as this person eats the foods his family is
eating, his recovery may be speeded up, or perhaps he will not be
able to stand the "joyful" flavor that others are eating. Anyway, this is all food for thought... Donna
P.S. The woman who loved the sour pummelo cross has had liver
trouble the last few years, which is associated with sour tastes,
and she can no longer stand to eat grapefruit, they are too sour now
she finds.

Ed:

That explanation of yours is way too uncomplicated. This is 2003. Now I know why you have no fear. Your kidney function is too good.

Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA





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