Had an interesting experience last weekend, guests around for dinner and as a light desert I made a lemon gelati/sorbet, had made it in the past and it was quite successful, this time I was a little heavy handed with the lemon juice.
The desert was duly served and everyone enjoyed it, some even backed up for seconds, except me, I found it mouth puckeringly sour, to the point I could not even finish the serve.
This got me thinking about sensitivity to sour tastes and my preference for a small amount of sugar in my coffee, most of our guests finished the evening with coffee without sugar (obviously did not need it).
So perhaps we people who use sugar have palates that are more sensitive to sour/bitter tastes than average, I dislike tart apples, my wife enjoys them, pineapple must be ripe and sugary for me to enjoy it, my wife has no problem with them on the tart side.
Any way did a search and came up with this link http://www.britannica.com/bps/additi...e-in-the-Genes which suggests genes may be responsible for sour taste perception, sounds reasonable to me and may well explain a lot.
Any thoughts on the subject?
Cheers,
Jon.
The desert was duly served and everyone enjoyed it, some even backed up for seconds, except me, I found it mouth puckeringly sour, to the point I could not even finish the serve.
This got me thinking about sensitivity to sour tastes and my preference for a small amount of sugar in my coffee, most of our guests finished the evening with coffee without sugar (obviously did not need it).
So perhaps we people who use sugar have palates that are more sensitive to sour/bitter tastes than average, I dislike tart apples, my wife enjoys them, pineapple must be ripe and sugary for me to enjoy it, my wife has no problem with them on the tart side.
Any way did a search and came up with this link http://www.britannica.com/bps/additi...e-in-the-Genes which suggests genes may be responsible for sour taste perception, sounds reasonable to me and may well explain a lot.
Any thoughts on the subject?
Cheers,
Jon.

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