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Japan’s Calpis beverage can leave a gross residue in some people’s mouths, and here’s why
投稿日 2018年5月8日 12:00:22 (ニュース)
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It’s the name that turns many English-speakers off, but even people in Japan sometimes take issue the way Calpis can linger in your mouth.
Calpis, Japan’s most popular dairy-based soft drink, famously had to change its name overseas to “Calpico,” since the company figured that trying to market something that sounds like “cow piss” to English-speakers would be a tall task. In Japan, though, nobody snickers at the Calpis name, but some people do find it kind of gross for another reason.
It’s not the taste, a mild milk/yogurt flavor, that bothers anyone, though. No, the problem is that after drinking a glass of Calpis, some people say they can feel an unpleasant residue in their mouths. After a friend cited that as the reason he’s not a big Calpis fan, Japanese Twitter user @aiakzw looked into the matter, and found out the reason for the sensation.
カルピス飲むと口の中に何か残るのがちょっと苦手って言ったらYくんが『何それ?』的な反応をしたので調べてみたら唾液に含まれる成分によって残る人と残らない人がいるらしいということを知った。カルピスの旨味だけ堪能できる人が羨ましい。
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aku (@aiakzw) May 06, 2018
@aiakzw learned that when a substance present in Calpis combines with human saliva, they can combine into a solidified compound. Specifically, as pointed out by Twitter user @camelotmerlin, it’s the combination of the lactoprotein casein, found in Calpis, with mucin, a glycoprotein in human saliva, that causes the phenomenon.
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@aiakzw 唾液中の『ムチン』という糖タンパク質と、乳酸菌飲料に含まれる『カゼイン』という乳タンパク質が結合できたものだそうです。カルピスウォーターはこの塊ができなくするように製品化したそうです。
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merlin (@camelotmerlin) May 06, 2018
Luckily, the compound that forms isn’t dangerous in any way, so the worst thing it can do is make drinking Calpis unpleasant for some. However, not everyone notices any sort of residue when drinking Calpis, so it could be that depending on how much mucin your saliva contains, or how mist your mouth is, you may or may not experience the effect. However, if the sensation is pronounced enough to keep you from enjoying Calpis on its own, you could always try mixing it with alcohol, which has a pretty consistent track record making people not worry about little things.
Sources: Twitter/@aiakzw, Twitter/@camelotmerlin via Hachima Kiko
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