James Barry
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Yeah.
And that's what fermentation is and culturing.
And so you can preserve dairy.
You can do things, right, with fermentation and culturing.
You can take a vegetable that is not going to be good raw or won't even be digestible, but yet when you ferment it, it's completely digestible.
Well, think about our flavors, right?
Our tastes.
Okay, so there's four that we grew up learning, which is salty, sweet, bitter, sour.
Right?
There's a fifth that they discovered in the 90s.
That's umami.
That was in Japan.
And then they think there's a sixth.
And it's not talked about as much, but it makes sense.
It's like when something is rancid, it has a flavor.
Right, right.
And that's probably protectant.
Yeah.
It's a, you know, just like I said earlier, if it is going to kill me, right?
So that probably has its unique taste so that we don't eat it.