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Show A fickle sense of taste besets u by DENNIS HINKAMP The New CokeOld Coke controversy con-troversy has raised people's awareness of subtle changes in taste. Blind taste tests have found that many people can't tell the difference between new and old Coke or even between Coke and some of the competing cola brands. So, for many of us, a cola, is a cola, is a cola. This lack of discriminating taste carries over to other foods as well. You might be surprised how many of us can't distinguish between pork, beef and lamb. A really un-discriminating un-discriminating group of taste testers, you say? Not at all. The test was designed to eliminate most of the external cues that help us distinguish different dif-ferent types of meat - color, tex-turee, tex-turee, shape, cooking method. According to Dr. Charlotte Brennand, assistant professor of nutrition and food sciences at USU, when you prepare a broth from each of the three types of meat, taste test panelists have a hard time distinguishing differences in taste. She says panelists had an especially hard time distinguishing between the three meat broths when the meat fat was taken out. Lamb and pork broths with fat removed were often confused with beef broth. On the other hand, when the lamb fat was present, it was almost always identified as beine ia , Brennand says This8 research indicatees that our food preferences things other than taste w d i kwho entered the studyS hated lamb, actually wEft they were eating it or not ntte11 if Finding that people $Kn . , the taste of lamb by its fat 1" may indicate that cooking meS' have a lot to do with people's SJ dislike of lamb, she i saw f think you don't like the tastlf lamb, you may want to try it ! but this time remove as much oft external fat as possible befn cooking. ure |
