Re: [CH] Chile-Heads Digest V6 #180
fragrantgarden (fragrantgarden@fastlink.com.au)
Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:13:28 +1100
>
>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:44:04 -0500
>From: george dork <gdork@flash.net>
>Subject: Re: [CH] News item
>
>Mary & Riley wrote:
>>
>> > From: Dave Drum [mailto:xrated@famvid.com]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 5:43 PM
>> > To: Mary & Riley
>> > Cc: ChileHeads
>> > Subject: Re: [CH] News item
>>
>
>> > Hmmmmmm..... I'll have to cross this into the FIDO Cooking Echo. We've
>> > been discussing "hot" as a taste to go along with salt, sour, sweet and
>> > bitter.
>(snip)
>
>This "news" about the umami taste is right 'bout a
>hundred years old, as Mary and Riley noted.
>
>In 1908 the Japanese investigator Kikunae Ikeda
>isolated monosodium glutomate in the seaweed in which
>it naturally occurs, permitting MSG to be produced
>artifically.
>
>The news more recently mentioned as being in the April
>issue of Scientific American (I couldn't find it in
>the on-line edition) is probably something along the
>lines of a Reuters press report that can be viewed at
>the URL below:
>
>http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/Tastereceptor_000124.html
>
>The gist of which is simply that the molecule in our
>mouth that senses MSG has been identified.
>Interestingly, the scientists who made this discovery
>used rats as proxies for us...standing in for you and
>me.
>
>I will close now to go and ponder that, but I doubt it
>is the chile sensor. dork
>
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A few years ago a Japanese company also genetically enginered a type of
bateria that could produce L-trptophan cheaply. It killed acouple of
hundred people and made invalids of 1000?? +
It cost them 3billion to keep it quiet.
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