There used to be four flavor groups: sweet, sour, salt and bitter. All but sweet and salt have disappeared from most foods. Try to name a popular food item which is bitter or sour.
I occasionally buy schav (sorrel soup), but this has been sweetened too. The same goes for cabbage soup. And we wonder why so many people are having health and weight problems... Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
sweet, sour, salt and bitter
I would add to this: spicy. I actually try to integrate all five tasts in a meal and try to avoid processed food like the devil. :-) I find if I stay with lots of fresh vegetables I get all tastes easily.
And of course the food companies have to add sugar and salt as it is more addictiv.
Well, sour like from lemon juice or vinegar in the salad sauce, which I always make myself.
and I guess both bitter and sour are also in Helen's cranberries. :-)
That's what comes to mind right now, I am sure if I would think about it more I could think of others too.
as sour are also considered: rhubarb, tomatoes, sauerkraut, yoghurt.
additional bitters can be considered: parsley, celery tops, garlic, onion, dandelion, which you can currently find fresh in the fields.
To wit: DANNON Fruit on the Bottom Blueberry Serving Size: 6 oz; 170g
Cultured grade A lowfat milk, blueberries, sugar, fructose syrup, high fructose corn syrup, contains less than 1% of modified corn starch, pectin, kosher gelatin, sodium phosphate, malic acid, natural flavor, calcium phosphate. Contains active yogurt cultures including L. acidophilus.
Sugars 25g Protein 6g
(By the way this used to come in an 8oz container, it is now 6oz.) Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
dandelion, which you can currently find fresh in the fields
And in my chemically untreated lawn. Just what I need-another excuse not to mow it. ;)
Juices are supposed to contain actual juice, almost exclusively. The juice will usually have been macerated within an inch of its life, freeze dried, shipped across the world in a leaky tanker, warmed up and reconstituted before being chilled again. So it's not fresh juice. But it's still juice.
Fruit drinks can apparently contain anything at all including colours, flavours, artificial sweeteners, mayonnaise, glue, and rusty old machine tools. I suspect there's a statutory limit on how little juice manufacturers can get away with. Whatever that limit is, any 'fruit drink' will be right on the line.
Cranberries are supposed to help with prostate cancer. Although that particular research was sponsored by the national cranberry association - or whatever the official title is - so it may be best to take it with a pinch of something sour or bitter.
Those fruit "drinks" made of juice and sugar and water and whatever are called "nectars" in France.
LOL... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
bitter greens, like scarola. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
