What is the cause of the explosion of the 'immersing testicles in soy sauce' boom?
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The challenge of 'immersing the testicles in soy sauce for science' has become popular, triggered by the posting on the video sharing app ' TikTok '. It's a content that makes you read the text twice, but the reason for this movement was in 2013.
People Are Dipping Their Testicles in Soy Sauce, So Here's Some Science
https://www.sciencealert.com/people-are-dipping-their-testicles-in-soy-sauce-so-here-s-some-science
People Are Dipping Their Balls Into Soy Sauce After Learning Testicles Have Taste Receptors | IFL Science
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/people-are-dipping-their-balls-into-soy-sauce-after-learning-testicles-have-taste-receptors/
This movement is based on a study published in 2013 that states that 'male testes have taste receptors.'
Genetic loss or pharmacological blockade of testes-expressed taste genes causes male sterility | PNAS
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/30/12319
However, in reality, the taste receptors here are different from the taste buds in the mouth, and this study does not show that humans can perceive 'taste' through the testes. However, as a result of the message game being played from researchers to the media and from the media to SNS influencers, a new 'testicle challenge' based on misunderstanding was born.
For example, an article in the Daily Mail published in 2013 has the headline 'The testicles have taste buds that can detect sweetness and are essential for fertilization.'
Testicles have taste buds that can detect sweet flavours-and they're vital for fertility | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2356008/Testicles-taste-buds-detect-sweet-flavours--theyre-vital-fertility.html
According to overseas media Know Your Meme , TikTok user Regan picked up an article in the Daily Mail on January 15, 2020, and the movement to 'immerse the testicles in soy sauce' started. Regan called on someone with testicles to 'immerse the testicles in something. It's for science. I have to know.'
You can check the movie posted by Regan from the following.
@cryinginthecar please I need to know
♬ original sound --cryinginthecar
Many people responded to Regan's call. In addition to the experimental movie released on YouTube ...
Can Balls Taste? (Soy Sauce and Orange Juice Challenge) --YouTube
Alx James also shouts 'I understand saltiness!' In the following movie ...
@alxjames
In reality, it is impossible to perceive the taste with the testicles. A 2013 study showed that taste receptors are ubiquitous in the body, including the mouth and testicles, but Bedrick Mosigner, chief director of the Monell Institute of Chemosensory, told Business Insider: The existence of taste receptors has been confirmed, but the purpose of why they are there remains unknown. '' The function of taste receptors outside the mouth remains largely a mystery. ' I'm talking .
The act of soaking the testicles in soy sauce is 'like putting soy sauce on the outside of the cheeks,' says science writer James Felton .
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