Gustology (TASTE) with Dr. Gary Beauchamp
Sweet! Salty! Umami? What’s up with MSG? Why do you like your coffee black? Come down to flavortown and let’s talk tongues. Gustologist Dr. Gary Beauchamp is a chemosensory scientist and an expert in taste. We chat about tastebud flim-flam, celebrity grade hot wings, MSG research, excitotoxins, weaning off sugar, the worst soup on the market, what countries have salt restrictions, why you lost your taste with Covid, how much taste is smell, artificial sweeteners, acquiring a taste for foods, and how a sweet tooth may affect your booze consumption. Delicious facts, served up hot.
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Visit Dr. Gary Beauchamp’s Research and Career Highlights and ResearchGate profile
A donation was made to the Monell Center and Philadelphia Young Playwrights
Links to things we discussed:
Dr. Morley Kare, founder of the Monell Chemical Senses Center
Taste Recognition: Food for Thought
Fruit fly offers lessons in good taste
Cats Lack a Sweet Taste Receptor
Genetics of Taste and Smell: Poisons and Pleasures
Effects of ageing on smell and taste
Pseudogenization of a sweet-receptor gene accounts for cats' indifference toward sugar
Functional Analyses of Bitter Taste Receptors in Domestic Cats (Felis catus)
Dr. Beauchamp on NPR: Cats Can't Taste Sweetness, Study Finds
Cats and Carbohydrates: The Carnivore Fantasy?
Daily/Colbert - Gators Love Marshmallows
Flavor perception in human infants: development and functional significance.
Sensory perception and pleasantness of food flavors in elderly subjects
Early Flavor Learning and Its Impact on Later Feeding Behavior
High salt intake. Sensory and behavioral factors.
Experimental sodium depletion and salt taste in normal human volunteers
Strategies to Reduce Salt Content and Its Effect on Food Characteristics and Acceptance: A Review
Salt Reduction Initiatives around the World
Sodium Reduction Initiatives Across the Globe
Adventures in Diet, Part 1, By Vilhjalmur Stefansson Harper's Monthly Magazine, November 1935.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, ethnologist, lecturer, writer
Differences in dynamic perception of salty taste intensity between young and older adults
WHO’s Sodium Country Score Card
Massive efforts needed to reduce salt intake and protect lives
Sucralose Promotes Food Intake through NPY and a Neuronal Fasting Response
Aspartame—True or False? Narrative Review of Safety Analysis of General Use in Products
Artificial sweetener is a growing threat for metabolic syndrome: why is extra attention required?
New York Times: We Need More Doctors Who Are Scientists
My Twitter (X?) poll on Diabetic vs. Person-First Language
Congenital sucrase-isomaltase deficiency
Congenital sucrase–isomaltase deficiency: identification of a common Inuit founder mutation
Researchers identify Inuit gene responsible for sugar intolerance
CSID list of sugars and tolerances
Taste buds: cells, signals and synapses
The Low Glutamate Diet Effectively Improves Pain and Other Symptoms of Gulf War Illness
Excitotoxicity via excess glutamate
Smell and Taste Loss Associated with COVID-19 Infection
Ethanol Consumption and Taste Preferences in C57BL/6ByJ and 129/J Mice
Glutamate: A Safe Nutrient, Not Just a Simple Additive
Natural products as safeguards against monosodium glutamate-induced toxicity
Video: What are Taste Receptors? How Does it Work? Animation
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Gastroegyptology (BREAD BAKING)
Entomophagy Anthropology (EATING BUGS)
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Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media and Mark David Christenson
Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary
Website by Kelly R. Dwyer
Theme song by Nick Thorburn