• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
  • WordPress
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
Science Update

Science Update

Sharing Science | Satisfying Curiosity | Debunking BS

  • Spotlights
  • Reality Check
  • Why Is It?
  • Radio Archives
  • Sciup @ School
Home » Radio Archive » Daily Show » Salt & Sour Taste Receptors

Salt & Sour Taste Receptors

July 21, 2017
https://podcast.scienceupdate.com/170721_sciup_salty.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window

BOB HIRSHON (host):

Sour and salty science. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.

Receptors on our tongues allow us to perceive a variety of flavors in the foods we eat. And while scientists have identified those responsible for sweet, bitter, and umami tastes, the receptors for salty and sour tastes still remain elusive. But according to molecular neurobiologist Peihua Jiang of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, there’s an especially urgent need to identify the taste receptor for salt.

PEIHUA JIANG (Monell Chemical Senses Center):

People tend to eat salty food, associated with metabolic disorders, so if we can find the receptor, then we trick the receptor using salt enhancer, that way we c an probably reduce the intake of the salt.

HIRSHON:

…much like the way artificial sweeteners trick the brain into thinking we’ve eaten actual sugar. Jiang’s team describes the search for sour and salty taste receptors in the journal Scientific Reports. I’m Bob Hirshon, for AAAS, the science society.

Story by Susanne Bard

Category: Daily Show, Station DownloadTag: Medicine & Health, Nutrition & Food Science
Previous Post:Gut Microbes & Longevity
Next Post:Whale Diet & Genetics

Sidebar

Radio Program Archives

Want to learn more about the brain? The environment? Here you can browse the topics that come up regularly on Science Update.

Search the Archives

Categories

  • Daily Show
  • Station Download
  • Weekly Show

Find By Tag

  • 2020
  • Acoustics & Sound
  • Aging
  • Animal Behavior
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Astronomy & Space
  • Biology
  • Brain Science
  • Bugs
  • Chemistry
  • Children & Families
  • cicadas
  • Climate & Weather
  • Communications
  • Computer Science
  • Economics & Business
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Environment & Conservation
  • Genetics & Evolution
  • Geology
  • Marine Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine & Health
  • Microbiology
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nutrition & Food Science
  • Paleontology & Dinosaurs
  • Physics
  • Plants & Agriculture
  • Political Science
  • Reality Check
  • Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Sports & Fitness
  • spotlight
  • Spotlight Bugs
  • Terrorism & War
  • Why Is It? Questions
  • Wildlife
  • Year in Review

Find By Date

Science Update
  • About Science Update
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • YouTube

Recent Posts

Mayan Honeybee hives
House sparrow wearing top hat rides aboard a red fireworks rocket

Copyright © 2023 · Springtail Media LLC · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Pongos