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You'll screw up your face and you'll stick out your tongue because that is a natural reaction, human reaction to bitterness. Why? Because bitterness can signal a toxin, a poison. Not everything that's bitter is toxic but toxic things are usually bitter.
But in this programme I'm going to be calling on you to live a more bitter life, to seek bitterness out, to celebrate bitterness. After all it helped to make us who we are today.
We were able to learn which foods, no other animal to date, were safe to eat and that is almost certainly a significant contributing factor in our success as a species so we had a much wider range of available foods.
And the main reason we should all be actively seeking out bitterness is that it's been disappearing from our food.
There're some ways in which industry works to actively remove this bitterness from foods. It's happening everywhere. The wines get the bitter less, juices, fruits, vegetables. By doing this they also make the food supplies less healthy.
To make a case for bitterness I've even ventured onto the frontline of taste to take on some of the world's most bitter flavours. | 
发表于 2016-10-17 19:25:20