Busting nutrition misinformation. The sky will not fall–

if your kids don’t eat their broccoli.

Broccoli

It all begins with the senses– in particular our inter-related senses of taste and smell.

The tongue can taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savory or what we now call umami.

Wealso have receptors for fat, briny- as in alkaline – metallic and water. Yes, even a non-taste like water rates receptors.

There are good evolutionaryreasons to taste bitter – Poisonous plants tend to be bitter. Makes sense that we would therefore be sensitive to bitter.

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