Current Event; Book Review: Can Science Determine Which Foods Taste Best Together?

        To start off, science explains many things in the universe and so helps us understand how we and everything else around us are made.      
        Now scientists have found a book that was said that when any two or more foods have a same flavor compound, then they are bound to taste well together. So scientists set out to see if it was true. They then found that beef and jasmine both contain the compound skatole; and so they were had to taste well together. However, when scientist tried it out, it was a complete failure! They didn't taste well together at all!! And so I was surprised to see that. They went into some research and found a beverage that blended mint and caraway. However, it devised the principle and both herbs only had the same structure and not the same flavor compound. This surprised the scientists and they hoped to find more information on connecting foods with science. This article was posted on the 21st of March.

       However, scientists spent amounts of time on this in order for them to find a way to figure out how to make foods without all the trial and error.

       I believe that the idea was a great one especially because it gave a person a way to connect to science while doing something they enjoy to do. The only problem is that for people who like to cook, like me, wouldn't get to make anything without learning from it. I believe that a person cannot make something without actually making a mistake first; and so even though this experiment didn't go well for the scientists, I still hope the find another way to make foods and how to make us remember that science is all around us.

Sources:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/book-review-taste-buds-and-molecules
http://www.kerriganmeats.ie/
http://www.aroma-pure.com/jasmine.htm