# 416 Sherry Hess – Hijacked Flavour: reclaiming taste from the food industry Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782/416-sherry-hess-hijacked-flavour-reclaiming-taste-from-the-food-industry Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782/416-sherry-hess-hijacked-flavour-reclaiming-taste-from-the-food-industry.md Podcast: [Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782) Published: 2026-04-14T15:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/sherry-hess Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1154870/episodes/18874768-416-sherry-hess-hijacked-flavour-reclaiming-taste-from-the-food-industry.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782/episodes/416-sherry-hess-hijacked-flavour-reclaiming-taste-from-the-food-industry Duration seconds: 4257 ## Resource Your tongue might be the most underused tool we have for understanding food quality — and for moving consumer buying power toward regenerative farming. Sherry Hess, culinary professional, nutritionist, and founder of The Flavor Remedy, makes the case that taste is not a nice-to-have. It is a powerful biological signal, and the food processing industry has understood this far longer than we have. We go deep on the five tastes — salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami — and on why ultra-processed... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782/episodes/416-sherry-hess-hijacked-flavour-reclaiming-taste-from-the-food-industry/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782/416-sherry-hess-hijacked-flavour-reclaiming-taste-from-the-food-industry.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.