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November 15, 2024 3 mins

When fizzy drink is on your tongue, your tongue is actually tasting the carbon dioxide

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's been fizzy drink.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
We're weak here at fact of the day. And I'm
going to end with one that I found it this
other week and it blew my mind and I've saved it. Okay,
when you drink a fizzy drink and you feel the
bubbles popping on your tongue, it's not that's the taste
of carbon dioxide. What it's not bubbles popping on your tongue.

(00:38):
When you feel the bubble swopping, that's feeling it. But
you know the taste when your tongue feels the bubbles popping. Wait,
that's what that must be, the bubbles popping. Yeah, it's
bubbles on my tongue. That's what I think.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's bubbles on my That's what carbon dioxide tastes. It's bubbled.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Carbon dioxide tastes like bubbles popping on your But that's
not a taste, that's a sensation. That's a feelings tell
us a tank of carbon dioxide.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
And when don't. It's poisonous. Don't. It's what you can't breathe.
It's what trees turned back into breathable stuff for us.
Don't do it? Think and also think you trees. I
don't get it.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Big shout out to trees today, the show heroes of
this world. We should chop more of them down. No,
leave more of them up, interesting hang unless they are
a weed, then I think chop them down and replace.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Them with taste receptors in the mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Since the five basic tastes sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, savoriness.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Sour, it's sourness not and bubbles on the tongue. It's
bubbles on the sour bubbles on the tongue, isn't it
taste the carbon dioxide?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
The bubbles and are tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny tiny, so
they sit on there and only parts of your tongue
a fear, are tasting at once. Whereas if you eat
an apple, yeah, the apple coats your tongue, you get
apples in all parts of the tongue.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
You can taste the apple right or if you drink
like you when you drink a coke.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Everywhere apart from where the carbon dioxide which has a
distinctly different taste to the coke is on the tongue.
You're like, that's the bubbles popping, but it's not. It's
you tasting the carbon dioxide. That's why have you ruined
fizzy for me?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that's sort of crazy because it's a feeling, not a.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Taste, but it's a taste in tiny dots, which gives
it the impression that it's a feeling.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's this trippy man.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, those are bubbles and they pop, bubbles pop. Yeah,
So when you drink it, imagine wing poka dots. Not circular,
you know, three D bubbles, but imagine polka dots on
your tongue and the parts where you've dot it is
where you're tasting carbon dioxide and the rest is the
fizzy drink that you're tasting.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
What about popping candy different? Completely plain that because it
explaining that what does that taste? How's that popping? That's
that's popping. That's different. But is that a taste or
a feeling?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's a feeling and a taste because you pop candy,
but you're feeling the popping. Okay, right, but the time yet,
so you might be thinking the bat.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Weird.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, weird. I feel about tripping bowls, you.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Know, like that's a bit weird. I don't like this one.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
What's a taste, What's a feeling? Yeah, what you're describing
as a feeling and telling you it's a taste, Yeah,
it's not so.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Today's fact of the day is when this when fizzy
drinks on your tongue, your tongue is tasting the carbon dioxide.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
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