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Originally Posted by 01101001
I agree 100% that we resist consuming alkaloids, at least until we learn to love things like chocolate and coffee.
I just don't taste alkaloids in most sour candy, sorry. I'm not doubting that there are small amounts in some. Probably grapefruit or lemon sour candy has a little alkaloid in it, but it's just a minor constituent. And I'm sure I've had base-free sour candies that made me pucker up.
Why blame a base for the effect of a sweet-sour?
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And yea, the whole puckering thing...what's that about? Bitterness is unpleasant, but the reaction is much less violent. You get a nice pure shot of citric acid and your whole body gets into the action. Unsweetened chocolate just tastes bad, you might grimmace, but that's about it.
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