Curious Collection

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How do our taste buds form and change over time?
Why do we love the taste of sugar so much?
1 min
The Food Programme
Taste
What is taste and how does it develop? And, which tastes will blow the mind?
12 mins
Are you influenced by food trends?
Do you use the internet to get ideas for what to cook?
1 min
The Digital Human
Series 9
Taste
Aleks Krotoski explores whether or not the digital world is changing food culture.
6 mins
What happens when your sense of taste becomes warped?
What’s life like if you can’t taste things properly?
1 min
The Senses
Smell and Taste
‘Everything smelled of rotting flesh, even perfume’: What happens when smell goes wrong?
19 mins
Are there any foods that you’ve been on a journey with?
Why does what we enjoy the taste of change over the course of our lives?
1 min
Sideways
A Small Bowl Of Rocket
Matthew Syed sticks his fork into the world of food to think about how taste is formed.
27 mins
Fin
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1 min