{"id":653,"date":"2019-06-13T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/chapter\/elements-of-taste\/"},"modified":"2019-06-13T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:50:10","slug":"elements-of-taste","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/chapter\/elements-of-taste\/","title":{"raw":"Elements of Taste","rendered":"Elements of Taste"},"content":{"raw":"\nEssentially there are a handful of elements that compose all of the taste profiles found in the foods we eat. Western definitions of taste conventionally define four major elements of taste:\n<ul>\n\t<li>Salty<\/li>\n\t<li>Sweet<\/li>\n\t<li>Sour<\/li>\n\t<li>Bitter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAsian cultures have added the following to the list:\n<ul>\n\t<li>Umami (literally \u201cpleasant savoury taste\u201d)<\/li>\n\t<li>Spiciness<\/li>\n\t<li>Astringency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFoods and recipes that contain a number of these elements in balance are generally those that we think of as tasting good.\n\n&nbsp;\n","rendered":"<p>Essentially there are a handful of elements that compose all of the taste profiles found in the foods we eat. Western definitions of taste conventionally define four major elements of taste:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Salty<\/li>\n<li>Sweet<\/li>\n<li>Sour<\/li>\n<li>Bitter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asian cultures have added the following to the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Umami (literally \u201cpleasant savoury taste\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Spiciness<\/li>\n<li>Astringency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Foods and recipes that contain a number of these elements in balance are generally those that we think of as tasting good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-653","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":648,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/653\/revisions"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/648"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/653\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/ingredients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}