Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.com.

Hello this is six minute English from BBC learning English. I'm Phil and I'm Beth.

Phil I'm going to start this episode with Grapefruit.

I've got some here do you want some?

I'm not that keen on Grapefruit. They're too bitter for me.

Oh that's a shame because this episode is all about bitter food.

It has actually been linked to a number of health benefits.

So maybe you should take my grapefruits?

I might not like it that much,

but in this program we'll be finding out

how bitter foods can benefit our health. And of of course we'll be learning some useful

new vocabulary. That should give you a taste of what's coming up but before that

if you want to learn vocabulary to talk about world events, search for our news review

podcast. We look at vocabulary about a major news story every week. But back to this episode I have a question for you Phil. How many

different basic flavours can humans taste? Is it A, 4, B 5 or C 6?

Hmm, I can think of bitter, sweet, salty and sour.

So I'm going to go with 4. I think we can taste four basic flavours.

Okay Phil I'll reveal the correct answer later.

Leila Kazin presents the Food Programme on BBC Radio 4. Here she is talking about some of the possible

benefits of bitter food.

New research has found a remarkable link between bitter foods and our health.

It seems they have an incredible ability to interact with our gut microbiome,

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