Will you eat forbidden mold? Scientists have discovered a compound from mushrooms, which seems to be the most bitter substance known in the world.
Researchers in Germany have discovered not boring in the species of mushrooms called Amaropostia Stiptica—ASO is well known as bitter fungi. This compound is one of the three bitter molecules discovered by the study of mushrooms. The results of the research may help scientists understand that animals like us develop to detect bitterness in the midst of other questions that have not been answered.
Ours taste Able to choose five outstanding flavors in the wide area, one of which is bitterness Scientists have specified About 2,400 different molecules That makes the bitter bitter taste more than 800 linked to at least one flavor However, from the study of this researcher, it is just a small example of what causes a lot of bitterness.
Most of these compounds say that it comes from plants or synthetic production. And there are very few that we know about the original bitter bread from other branches of life, including fungi Therefore, the researchers decided to look at the known fungi. But less education
although A. Stiptica Not as poisonous like some mushrooms, it does not work because of bitterness The researchers found that some tastes were able to explain, assembled as previously known. OLIGOPORINS A and B, which are examples of Triterpene Glycosides, but they also discovered three similar compounds.
One of these compounds is that Olyigoporin D is bitter and officially able to determine our bitter taste (called Tas2RS) at an incredible low concentration at 63 million km per liter according to the researchers' reports. In order to get it in a clear sense, this is equivalent to one gram, reduced in water worth about 100 bathtubs.
Scientists at the Leibniz Food Biology Institute at Munich Technical University in the frequency and at the LEIBNIZ Plant Institute in HALLE, the discovery Their findings are Published Previously, this February in agricultural and food chemicals
The researchers say that their studies are the first time that has a compound from mushrooms in screening bitter flavors. And what we learn from learning A. Stiptica And similar mushrooms can help us understand the nature of bitterness better
Bitterness is a common idea by living things to signal their poison to a potential hunter and avoid being eaten. For example But the bitter fungus is not toxic to humans and other toxic fungi such as the mushrooms. We also have bitter flavors in other parts of the body other than the mouth. But scientists are not sure why Therefore, the discovery and study of these bitter compounds are an important part of the process that is necessary to answer these questions and other burns.
“Our results help to expand our knowledge about the variety of molecules and fashion of the natural bitter compound,” said the educator. Maik Behrens said in A. statement From biology, Leibniz system “in the long run. In -depth data in this area can be renewed for food and health research, such as in the development of food that attracts neurological attention, which influences digestion and saturation.”
Personally, I hope that scientists will explain why I hate it so much.