What's the Sourest Edible Substance? (n/t)

Factual Questions
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P.S. (n/t) means No Text!!! :rolleyes:

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Don’t know about sour, but Cecil’s Mailbag has discussed taste.
Besides sweet, sour, etc., is there a fifth taste sensation, “umami”?

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Yes. That’s the column that inspired me to ask this…

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And here’s another on tasteAre birds immune to hot pepper, enabling them to eat vast amounts and spread the seeds?

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I Appreciate the thought, but these columns don’t really have that much to do with the OP :rolleyes:

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For the record, the coating on Mega Warheads includes malic,
ascorbic, and citric acid. I think “edible” may be a blurry line if you get those concentrations high enough to be really sour.

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Hurrah!

I mean edible as in non-poisonous.

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That was what I was thinking. I think that the hard candy version of Mega Warheads may be pushing the line. Have you put 3 or 4 of those things in your mouth at once?

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Hell, I’ve eaten so many warheads and Shocktarts (breakfast for a HS student) I can no longer taste sour, and eat whole lemons to amaze (read: amuse) my friends… oh well,

but I’d have to agree with Malic and Citric acids, they are (were for me) damned sour