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TIDBITS® TASTES FLAVORS

by Janet Spencer In the year 1918 the average American used about half a pound (.2 kg) of various spices in a single year. That’s the first year that the Department of Agriculture began tracking spice consumption. Today Americans eat about 3 ½ pounds (1.5 kg) of flavorings each year. Come along with Tidbits as we take a taste of spices, seasonings, and flavorings!

TASTE AND THE TONGUE • The average human tongue has about 10,000 taste buds. You may have seen a diagram of the human tongue which maps out what areas of the tongue are responsible for tasting what sorts of things, whether salty, sweet, bitter and so forth. This map of the human tongue has since been disproved. Every taste bud on the tongue is equipped with five different receptors and each is capable of detecting all of the five basic tastes.

• The five basic tastes are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and ‘unami,’ a Japanese word meaning savory or meaty.

• Each taste bud in the mouth dies off and is replaced about once every 14 days.

• You can’t see your taste buds. The bumps you can see on your tongue are called papillae and the tiny taste buds rest on top of these projections.

• There are eight muscles in the tongue.

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TASTE TEST • In the year 1930, an accident in the laboratory led to an amazing discovery. One scientist was tinkering with the formula for a blue dye in a lab owned by DuPont Chemical Company. As he was pouring a container of white powder into another container, he fumbled and the chemical powder puffed into the air.

He accidentally inhaled some of the powder, as did the scientist standing next to him. He was surprised when the scientist next to him started to gag because the powder was so bitter. He had tasted nothing whatsoever. Each of the scientists put a tiny dab of the powder onto their tongue. The scientist who had bobbled the formula tasted nothing whatsoever. His coworker grimaced because it tasted very bitter to him. They went throughout the department testing other people to see if they could taste the bitter powder or not. Some could, some could not. This was the first realization and the first proof that people’s sense of taste varies from person to person and is not at all uniform. Since then a marker in DNA has been identified which determines whether a particular human is sensitive to the taste of the bitterness or not.

• When a human tastes something bitter, the result will usually be a scrunched-up face: the mouth will frown, the nose is wrinkled up, and the tongue sticks out. Even babies make this face when they taste something bitter. Amazingly, animals do too.

VANILLA • Vanilla comes from the seeds of an orchid flower. It takes 18 months for a blossom on an orchid plant to be turned into vanilla extract. Madagascar, an island nation off the coast of Africa, is one place where vanilla grows in abundance.

A NEW VANILLA • In 1975 officials in Madagascar deliberately destroyed much of their vanilla crop in order to create scarcity to make the price go higher. One of their major buyers was McCormick, one of the biggest spice companies in the world. When the price of vanilla spiraled out of control, researchers at McCormick discovered how to make imitation vanilla out of pine cones, and then how to make it out of cloves. The result is called vanillin, more commonly known as ‘artificial vanilla flavoring.’ Vanillin still counts as a ‘natural’ flavor because there’s nothing unnatural about pine cones or cloves.

ARTIFICIAL FLAVORING • In 1965 there were fewer than 700 chemicals that imitated flavors. Today there are over 2,200.

• It’s been estimated that every person in America eats about 2 pounds (.9 kg) of chemical flavorings every year.

• Chemical flavorings are even added to livestock feeds to encourage animals to eat more so they get fat more quickly in order to turn a higher profit.

• When given nothing but straw to eat, livestock will eat more of it and thus gain weight faster if the straw has been treated with various artificial flavors making it taste like clover or rye grass. These are the same sorts of artificial flavorings used in human food as well. A child might not want to drink a glass of nothing but sugar water, but add some artificial flavorings to make it taste like fruit juice and they will drink every drop.

IT’S A FACT • In the years between 1949 and 1959, chemists invented over 400 additives to help preserve and process food.

ORIGINS OF SPICES • Cinnamon is made from dried tree bark.• Cloves are dried flower buds from a tree that grows in Indonesia.

• Nutmeg is made from the pit of a sweet fruit, similar to the pit inside a peach. Mace is the lacy covering of a nutmeg, slightly more pungent in taste.

• Peppercorns are the dried berries of a tropical vine.

• Today, saffron is the most expensive spice, nearly worth its weight in gold. It takes 14,000 dried stigmas of a certain crocus flower to make one ounce (26 g) of saffron. It cannot be harvested by machine but must be harvested by hand. In Bavaria in 1444 it was the law that any merchant found selling adulterated saffron was to be burned alive.

• In the 1800’s, Catholic priests wandered among the Indians in California to spread their religion. It is said that as they travelled, they would drop mustard seeds behind them. Later they could find their way back by following the trail of bright yellow mustard blossoms.

• Coriander helps inhibit inflammation in the human body. Ginger can relieve nausea and vomiting. Dill helps skin become more elastic. Basil kills viruses and lowers cholesterol. Cinnamon helps decrease blood glucose in people with type 2 diabetes. Black pepper has antidepressant properties and stimulates digestion. Turmeric can increase cognitive function.

• Allspice is a berry, not a blend of spices. It was named because it tastes like a blend of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.

• Herbs are derived from a plant’s leaves whereas spices come from the bark, buds, roots and seeds of a plant.

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Lowell Kysar moved to Sheridan in 1975 as an electrican. When he ran out of electrical work, he started at Broadway Autobody. In 1976 he was offered the job as the city of Sheridan electrical inspector and was paid $4.25 per hour. A few years later, he received a better job offer and went to work for the Foresters’ at A1 Electric, where he worked for eight years.

In 1985 Lowell went to work for Mike’s Electric. Mike’s Electric was started by Mike Janich in Billings in 1948. Mike Janich moved his business to Sheridan in 1963.

In 1997 Lowell bought Mike’s Electric from the current owner, Connie Johnson. Lowell did not change the name of the company because it was already well-known as Mike’s Electric.

Lowell’s son Nathan became a part-owner of Mike’s Electric Inc. in 2008.

Lowell Kysar is a master electrician with over 43 years of experience.

Nathan Kysar is also a master electrician as well as the project manager and estimator.

Mike’s Electric Inc. offers 24-hour emergency service and repair. Call Mike’s Electric today for all your electrical needs!

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PET OF THE WEEK! Tyrion is our cat of the week at Second Chance Sheridan Cat Rescue! Tyrion is a long hair tabby approximately 10 months old. Tyrion is very friendly and likes to play. Tyrion would love a home to call his own! For more information about Tyrion or any other adoptable cat, please call 307-461-9555 or visit http://sheridancatrescue.org

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By Sam Mazzotta Can You Afford a Pet? --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: A friend of ours recently passed away and left two dogs that need someone to care for them. We’re happy to take them in, but I know we’ll need to adjust our budget to cover their needs. How much does it cost to care for two healthy adult dogs? -- Karl in Albany, New York

HOT PEPPERS • Columbus was looking for a shorter route to the black pepper supply of India when he discovered the New World. Because he was so desperate to find pepper, everything that he came across which had a hot taste was dubbed ‘pepper.’ That’s why today we have green peppers and chili peppers.

These are fruits rather than berries, and their ‘hot’ taste is caused by a chemical called capsaicin.

Capsaicin isn’t really a taste; it’s a pain. Capsaicin stimulates the pain-sensing neurons inside the mouth.

• There are 30 species of pepper plants and all belong to the genus Capsicum, which comes from the Greek ‘kapto’ meaning bite or gulp.

• The Scoville test for measuring the amount of heat in a hot pepper was developed by Wilbur Scoville.

He was working for a pharmaceutical company, trying to make different uses out of plant alkaloids including capsaicin. A rating of 1 million Scoville units means that the extract from that plant must be diluted to a concentration of 1 part per million before its heat dissipates.

• A pepper called the Carolina Reaper comes in at 2.2 million Scoville heat units, which ranks it as the world’s hottest pepper. By comparison, policegrade pepper spray rates about 5 million Scoville units, which causes temporary blindness, difficulty in breathing, and total incapacitation.

• If a hot sauce is too hot for you, don’t try to cool your mouth with water or tea. They just spread the volatile oils around more. Instead, try soaking up the peppery oils with milk, fatty foods, or highalcohol drinks.

• Red peppers are high in vitamin C, and fresh paprika made from newly dried chili peppers contains more vitamin C by weight than lemon juice. (continued on last page).

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DEAR KARL: First, kudos to you for taking care of your friend’s pets! It’s a selfless act, and transitioning them to your home likely will help ease the emotional impact of losing their owner.

The cost of pet care varies with the type of pet, their health and other variables. However, the American Pet Products Association has come up with some average costs for caring for pets.

For dogs, overall care costs average about $1,650 per year, according to Hearst CIO Roger Paschke, citing an APPA report. About half of that amount goes to veterinary care. Pet food purchases take up another big chunk. And owners tend to spend a bit more on toys and similar products for dogs than they do for cats -- $47 versus $28 per year.

So, with two dogs, does that mean you’ll be spending twice that amount, or $3,300 each year? Perhaps.

Veterinary costs tend to be non-negotiable, for example -- but you could look into purchasing pet insurance to cover unexpected expenses beyond their annual physical and vaccinations. Dogs don’t really need to be festooned with toys, but you do need to purchase a good quality collar and leash for each of them.

By looking at various options for care and hunting for bargains on quality food and toys, you can keep the cost of caring for two dogs within your new budget.

Send your questions or pet care tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

Amazing Animals PRIMATE COMMUNICATION • Vervets are small monkeys that live in small social groups and communicate by grunting. For years people thought their series of grunts were merely a way of keeping track of where each member of the troop was located. But then two researchers in Kenya began to record the grunts while at the same time videotaping the vervets. Their analysis of the monkeys’ grunting revealed some surprising things.

• The vervets have three alarm calls signaling the presence of predators. One signifies eagle; one means leopard; and one designates snake. These three different calls were recorded and then played back to the monkeys on hidden loudspeakers. When the call for eagle was played, every monkey looked to the sky. When the cry for the leopard was played, they looked to the ground.

When the warning for snake was played, they looked to the trees.

• Next, the researchers studied the grunts vervets made when meeting other members of the group. They found the grunt a vervet makes when meeting a socially superior monkey is different from the grunt it makes when meeting an inferior. There is a different grunt altogether for a monkey from a different tribe. Researchers also isolated the grunt that means a monkey is moving into an open area.

• They played a practical joke on one vervet by occasionally playing that monkey’s “Stranger!” call on the loudspeakers when no stranger was present. The other members soon learned the monkey was unreliable because he was always “crying wolf.” They soon learned to ignore him, not only when he legitimately gave his “stranger” call, but also whenever he gave his other calls.

• In an experiment in 1962, researchers recorded the sounds a group of baboons made in the wild while storm clouds were gathering. Later the tape was played to a group of captive apes in a zoo. Even though the day was perfectly clear, the apes rushed to shelter as if a storm had been imminent.

• Washoe, a chimp at the University of Nevada, learned about 350 words using American Sign Language. She was able to use these words to make up her own terms, such as “drink-fruit” for watermelon; “water-bird” for swan; “white-tiger” for zebra; and “food-drink” for refrigerator. She even taught her adopted chimp son some sign language before she died at the age of 42 in 2007.

• Koko, a gorilla taught to use sign language, learned 645 signs by the time she was seven years old and now knows over 1,000 signs. She can also understand about 2,000 words of spoken language. Like Washoe, Koko is also capable of making up her own signs for things she does not know the word for. She made the signs for “finger” and “bracelet” indicating a ring.

• A bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee) named Kanzi was being trained to communicate in a lab by using a computer and typing in symbols. Kanzi was shown videos of Koko the gorilla using sign language. Kanzi’s handler was surprised when Kanzi began using sign language after viewing the videos in spite of the fact that sign language had not been part of the curriculum.

• An ape named Chantek was learning sign language when his handler gave him a bunch of grapes and indicated that she wanted the ape to share them with her.

Chantek ate all the grapes, and handed the empty stem back to his handler.

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WHY SO HOT? • Chili plants pump their fruits full of capsaicin, but why? According to an article in Discover magazine, a researcher found that mammals such as mice and pack rats think that capsaicin tastes horrible. Therefore, they do not eat hot peppers. Rodents will readily eat peppers that are capsaicin-free (such as bell peppers) but they stay away from the hot stuff. The researcher also found that the digestive system of mammals such as mice and rats destroys the seeds of the chili pepper plant. However, birds can’t taste capsaicin, and they eat chili peppers - and the seeds inside them - all the time. Chili seeds that have been eaten by birds and then expelled are three times more likely to germinate than those that haven’t been eaten by birds. Due to the bird’s flight range, the seeds are deposited far from the original plant where they can grow without competition. Therefore, the presence of capsaicin in a hot chili pepper is a survival strategy for the species.

• Some bird seed manufacturers add chili powder or capsaicin to the seed to prevent squirrels and deer from eating the food intended for the birds.

• One researcher did everything he could to try to condition a set of laboratory rats to like hot peppers. Some rats were fed a hot pepper diet from the moment of their birth. Others had chili powder gradually added into their feed.

Sometimes the researcher spiked the non-peppery food with a substance that would make the rats feel sick so that they would choose the peppery food instead. Sometimes he fed them a diet that contained no vitamin C hoping they would naturally go for their vitamin C-laden peppers. But no matter what he did, he could not train rats to like hot peppers.

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