Comment · Tue, December 15, 2020 · ND Owner
🔬 Curowhite and the Color of Curcumin 🔬
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 62 points
We have been getting a lot of confusion and questions on the color of Curowhite on our Facebook page, so I figured I would make a post here to address it. I am sure some people here are curious as well. To start, one of the major questions we have been getting is whether Curowhite is bleached to get rid of the color. I think many people are unaware of just how color works, which is why many people immediately jump to what they have experienced before. Many people have seen how chlorine bleach gets rid of color, so they fall back to that. I'll go through the details to clear things up.
What is color? Well color is simply our eyes interpreting the wavelengths of light being reflected back to us from an object. If an object is white, that means that the entire spectrum of visible light is being reflected back to our eyes. If we were to take out part of that spectrum before it reflected back to our eyes, we would see it as a specific color. In curcumin's case, we take out the blue hues, which means our eyes see the curcumin as orange. If we remove all wavelengths, we see black. It's all just our eyes interpreting the wavelengths of light being reflected back to us by objects.
So why…
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iwantmyownname · 3 points
I was interested why I tasted banana sometimes and other times not say like 3/5 times I've dosed it
I speculated that it might be due to the bacteria on the tongue and began searching studies about whether bacteria on the tongue could affect the taste you are experiencing and the perception of it
Studies mention genetic variants ( and so called 'Super tasters' ) in taste receptors but also mentions very poor literature for oral microbiota with the majority focusing on intestinal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6401163/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022034520917142
But I'm sure of a mind that the biofilm on the tongue plays a part
A recently cleaned tongue vs a tongue that clearly has a biofilm on the surface
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
That's pretty interesting! We still have so much more to learn about the microbiota in our bodies, and all the systems they affect.