![]() ![]() ![]() The astute reader will realize that sweet, sourness, bitter, salty, and savory do not fully account for the rich diversity that we understand as the taste of our food. But time, science and level-headedness eventually prevailed and this particular health scare has probably faded into memory for most. Students of recent history will remember how much panic there was surrounding MSG for a while. The receptors on these taste buds are stimulated by glutamate, which some might remember is added to foods in the form of monosodium glutamate or MSG. ![]() There is same debate about whether we have fifth type of taste bud for savory tastes (sometimes also referred to as umami). We essentially have four different types of taste buds that respond to sweetness, sourness, bitterness and saltiness. We first though need to explain how taste works. Why this occurs is an interesting question. Truth is, I had never heard of this before, but apparently it is quite common for patients to complain of a funny taste in their mouth when their IV lines are flushed with pre-prepared syringes of saline in order to keep them open and avoid clotting. Someone recently asked me if I had ever heard a patient complain that they could taste saline and medications when injected into their IV. ![]()
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