Pictured below, the art nouveau Café Americain, meticulously restored, at the Hampshire Hotel in Amsterdam—formerly the Hotel American…
…where I spent many a tea-time as a child, after playing in the park and before going back to our not-nearly-so-luxurious pensioen.
What we had with our tea there: sprits cookies, that we ate squiggle by squiggle. The fat of in them bumped off the astringent polyphenols from TRPV1, so the tea and the cookie were both sweet and very filling. BTW, remember that fat inhibits TRPV1 activity, so you can use it to dampen burn, for example.
Did I mention that we also have specific receptors for fats in our taste buds? In addition the effects of fats on TRPV1, fats also activate taste bud cells through the CD36 receptor (not temperature related), so there are actually six basic tastes for which we have specific receptors: sweet, sour (which like fat also acts on TRPV1), salty (ditto with TRPV1—a lot of salt can give a burning feeling…nature wants us to know when we have too much salt!), bitter, umami, and fat.
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Café American: http://www.cafeamericain.nl
Spritskoekjes: http://www.radio2.be/sites/default/files/images/articles/visuelproduit_1383847353.png
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