What decides our taste?

6 Minute English

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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What makes us like the flavours we like? Phil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.

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0:00.0	Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.com.
0:05.0	Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.
0:10.0	I'm Phil. And I'm Beth. Now let's talk about food. Okay what food do you love? What food do you hate? If you
0:20.0	ask around you'll soon see there's no right or wrong answer.
0:23.4	It's all a question of taste.
0:25.6	But our taste, it turns out, isn't simply a matter of opinion.
0:30.5	Rather, scientists have discovered that taste is influenced by our genes and DNA.
0:37.0	So in this program we'll be asking, what is taste?
0:41.0	Why can't we agree on it? And is it worth listening to experts whose job
0:46.0	is to tell us what to eat and drink? And as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary
0:52.2	as well.
0:53.0	Great, but first I have a question for you, Beth.
0:57.0	A good way of finding out about British tastes
1:00.0	is with the nation's best loved snack.
1:03.2	Crisps.
1:04.1	So what is the most popular flavor of crisps in the UK?
1:09.4	Is it a salt and vinegar, B, cheese and onion, or C,
1:17.0	brawn cocktail.
1:18.0	Hmm, I'm going to guess cheese and onion.
1:20.7	OK, Beth.
1:21.8	I'll reveal the answer later in the program.
1:24.0	Science's understanding of how taste works started only 25 years ago
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