> (Alex Rast)

>(PENMART01) wrote :
>
>>> (Naomi Darvell) writes:
>>>
>>>Overall, I think a good store-bought extract will work better than most
>>>homemade ones. But stay away from the synthetic stuff; use real
>>>vanilla!
>>
>>That's no longer true. Human sensory perception is incapable of
>>detecting any difference between modern vanilla flavoring and natural
>>vanilla...
>
>I tend to believe that any statement to the effect that "human perception
>is incapable of... {pick arbitrary sensory limit here}" sets the person
>making it up to be shown wrong by somebody. I think it's unwise to make
>limits on what human systems can do

You're probably one of those fools who spends mega bucks on audio equipment
with specs way beyond the hearing of cats and dogs, who actually is convinced,
because of the bucks spent, they are hearing something they're not.... that's
in fact called being afflicted with a psychosis... means you are nuts!

The perception of the presence of vanilla is 100% detected by sense of smell...
humans cannot taste vanilla on the tongue, not a possibility... humans can
taste only salt, sweet, sour, and bitter, vanilla is none of those. It's just
not possible for humans to differentiate between modern vanilla flavoring and
the real deal... yes, humans can detect the difference in a laboratory, with a
spectrometor, but no human can detect any difference with their own sensory
perception, human olfactory perception just ain't even close to good enough,
not even when it's at it's best, in a newborn... by the time a human is 25
years old they've already lost more than half their ability to taste anything..
and it goes way downhill from there... taste is NOT developed with age... at
least for sight there are corrective lenses (and color chips - humans are
incapable of retaining color variation for more than a second or two except for
extremes), for hearing
there are amplifiers... there is nothing for taste or smell.


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