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The Scientific Reason Sour Candy Makes You Salivate - Tasting Table

"... about 60 million to 70 million years back in our family tree, we lost the ability to produce vitamin C ourselves, whereas most other mammals can do this ... a lot of sour foods happen to have vitamin C. And that's one idea. Maybe we love sour food to keep ourselves flush with vitamin C."
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