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A sixth taste?
Food scientists in the US think they’ve found a unique, starchy taste, seven years after umami was added to salty, sweet, sour and bitter. Professor Barry C. Smith is the founder of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at the University of London.
(Photo: Chips, one of the foods that might have a ‘starchy’ taste Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
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