Donald Pszczola

Donald E. Pszczola

The sensation of taste can be categorized into five basic groups—sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami—with the tongue identifying each type in a distinct way. And keep in mind that it was not really that long ago that taste was perceived four ways with the somewhat mysterious umami the most recent addition to that club known as the Basic Tastes.Here’s some tasty mathematics for you. Take a strip of bacon plus a sweet and creamy ice cream and you get a… Well, I’ll let you finish the sweet-savory equation. As this form of new math proves, anything goes in today’s food formulating computations.

However, even with the addition of umami, I would argue that this group is actually much larger if we were to consider all the taste pairing…

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Food Technology magazine Senior Editor and key member of the Food Technology editorial staff for 26 years.
Donald Pszczola

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  1. Food Product Development
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