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- Feed Preview Comments on: Savor Flavor
By: Darren
Supposedly the Gros Michel banana is still around, though it is effectively extinct for industrial agriculture and so wouldn't turn up in our grocery stores. http://www.raw-food-health.net/Gros-M...
By: BenK
The episode is very forceful on the common point that, for example, vanillin is vanillin, regardless of source. True enough; and yet, not quite the whole truth. There are different congeners and ...
By: Capn Jimbo's Rum Project
In reply to Chris. Chris, I do hope you appreciate that you've avoided this gentleman's point. There's a world of difference between ...
By: Chris
In reply to Bill. "I question whether we ought to regard something that can only be created in a factory or a laboratory (as opposed ...
By: Bill
I just finished powering my way through all the episodes, finishing with this one. I love the podcast and look forward to lots of interesting stories in the future. I first became aware of the fl...
By: Chris
Over thirty years I worked in the very industrial area in south Seattle along the Duwamish River. Every so often the air was thick with a heavy vanilla smell. A co-worker in our nerdy engineering...
By: Bess Lovejoy
Just wanted to say this is my new favorite podcast. The part about native grape flavor becoming fossilized in fake grape flavor was particularly wonderful. Ghostly candy!
By: Nicola Twilley
In reply to Phil. Not in the "confused" packet, though! Purple is apparently either lime or raspberry.
By: Phil
The purple skittle comparison may have been a bad choice, as purple in the UK is black currant flavoured.
By: Blake
Interesting. I can really taste vanillin (vs. vanilla), and I don't care for it—but I would've described it as having a sharper flavor rather than missing things.