# PTE HIW #16: Cilantro as a Deodorizer for...

Highlight Incorrect Words #16 - Level 3 - Feeds Reading + Listening

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Here's a bizarre tale of two previously unrelated food products. First, chitlins, that delicacy of sizzled pig large intestines. They're well loved throughout the south, especially during the upcoming holiday season. But the smell of them cooking inspires significantly less affection because the cooking process sometimes smells like, well, feces. Researchers in Japan assumed that cilantro could help because cilantro is used in a variety of cuisines around the world to mask smells as well as to add flavorful flavors. And in a previous study, the research team had shown that cilantro can mask the cooking chitlin stench. In the new research in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, they isolated cilantro's aromatic compounds and tested each one for its odor fighting power. Many seem to lessen the stink, but one in particular, according to human sniffers, entirely cancels out the odor. It's called EE24 undecidional. It works at a very low dose, 10 parts per billion. So you can't smell the compound. It's not masking the chitlin odor, it's actually neutralizing it. So it's not just better living through chemistry, it's better chitlins too.

## Answer

- bizarre -> strange
- sizzled -> fried
- assumed -> thought
- flavorful -> distinctive
- aromatic -> volatile
- dose, -> concentration,

## Explanation

The recording differs from the transcript in 6 places: "bizarre" should be "strange"; "sizzled" should be "fried"; "assumed" should be "thought"; "flavorful" should be "distinctive"; "aromatic" should be "volatile"; "dose" should be "concentration".

The correct answers accurately capture the specific vocabulary used in the audio to describe the research process and the properties of the compounds involved.

## Hints

- Focus on the adjectives used to describe the food and the research process.
- Pay close attention to the scientific terms used when the speaker discusses the cilantro compounds.

## Transcript

Here's a strange tale of two previously unrelated food products. First, chitlins, that delicacy of fried pig large intestines. They're well loved throughout the south, especially during the upcoming holiday season. But the smell of them cooking inspires significantly less affection because the cooking process sometimes smells like, well, feces. Researchers in Japan thought that cilantro could help because cilantro is used in a variety of cuisines around the world to mask smells as well as to add distinctive flavors. And in a previous study, the research team had shown that cilantro can mask the cooking chitlin stench. In the new research in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, they isolated cilantro's volatile compounds and tested each one for its odor fighting power. Many seem to lessen the stink, but one in particular, according to human sniffers, entirely cancels out the odor. It's called EE24 undecidional. It works at a very low concentration, 10 parts per billion. So you can't smell the compound. It's not masking the chitlin odor, it's actually neutralizing it. So it's not just better living through chemistry, it's better chitlins too.

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