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How Food Tastes To Me Is Totally Different From How It Tastes To You
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In this month’s Sparks podcast, FiveThirtyEight’s science team talks about how humans experience the flavors of food and discusses the book “Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense” by Bob Holmes. In the podcast, which runs in FiveThirtyEight’s What’s The Point feed, lead health writer Anna Maria Barry-Jester, senior science writer Maggie Koerth-Baker, lead science writer Christie Aschwanden and senior editor Blythe Terrell talk about how factors such as smell and mouthfeel influence how we perceive what our food tastes like. Plus, the gang does a little bit of flavor tripping with miracle berries (and Pop Rocks are involved).

The second part of this month’s podcast, featuring an interview of Holmes by Anna, is below:

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FiveThirtyEight at 5:38: Tasting miracle berries

Blythe Terrell is a former senior editor at FiveThirtyEight.

Christie Aschwanden was a lead science writer for FiveThirtyEight. Her book “Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery” is available here.

Anna Maria Barry-Jester is a senior reporter at Kaiser Health News and California Healthline, and formerly a reporter for FiveThirtyEight.

Maggie Koerth was a senior reporter for FiveThirtyEight.

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