The Fifth Taste…

  • amio@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Spicy can be several things. I associate it mostly with chili heat (capsaicin fucking with your vanillin receptors for heat and pain) but people also call black pepper, onion and garlic spicy. They all have different “mechanisms of action”. I have no idea why e.g. chili heat isn’t considered a “taste”, but apparently it’s not.