(1) Saliva also contributes to taste by dissolving sapid substances in food and so making them accessible to the taste buds; a zinc-binding protein, gustin, is thought to contribute to the taste process.(2) We had all the preconditions for a long and sapid conversation.(3) Stone Barns' animals oxygenate their muscles with all their ranging and grass-eating, and thereby develop more sapid meat.(4) For example, Ida allowed water-deprived rats access for 15 min/day to a sapid solution on either 0, 8, or 16 consecutive days.(5) When the interval between preexposure and conditioning was 1 day, the rats formed only a weak aversion to the sapid solution, whereas when the interval was 19 days, the rats formed a very strong aversion to the solution.(6) Judging by his results, which he discusses in terms of sapidity and organoleptic and retronasal profiles, he, as much as anyone else, has elevated wine and cheese pairing to a science.(7) Together with salt, it gives both the name and the relish to sallets from the sapidity , which renders not plants and herbs only, but men themselves pleasant and agreeable.
