{"id":173680,"date":"2023-10-07T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-unlock-the-secrets-of-a-sixth-basic-flavor"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:26:01","slug":"scientists-unlock-the-secrets-of-a-sixth-basic-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-unlock-the-secrets-of-a-sixth-basic-flavor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists unlock the secrets of a sixth basic flavor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unlock-the-secrets-of-a-sixth-basic-flavor3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste\u2014in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter\u2014in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists led by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences have evidence of a sixth basic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/taste\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">taste<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In research published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, USC Dornsife neuroscientist Emily Liman and her team found that the tongue responds to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ammonium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ammonium<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chloride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chloride<\/a> through the same <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein+receptor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein receptor<\/a> that signals sour taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste\u2014in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter\u2014in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him. Now, scientists led by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences have evidence of a sixth basic taste. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}