<p>At our 2014 <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/2014/09/16/the-science-of-sushi/" title="">Science of Sushi</a> event, <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/2014/04/08/ole-mouritsen/" title="">Dr. Ole Mouritsen</a> and <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/2014/04/08/morihiro-onodera/" title="">Chef Morihiro Onodera</a> illuminated the science underlying some of our favorite components of sushi. In case you still haven’t had your fill, here are 10 scientific facts related to sushi:</p><div class="vert-display-toggle collapsible relative flex flex-col items-center "><div class="vert-unit mt-4 mb-3 top-20"><div ad-type="mobile-desktop" class="ad-wrapper vert min-h-boombox flex items-start justify-center" data-ad-mapping="inline" data-ad-slot="Discover/inline-ad" id="div-inline-ad-0"></div></div><span aria-label="Advertisement" class="text-ad mt-1 text-[11px] uppercase">Advertisement</span></div><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/530/placeholder_1_-s.jpg" title="placeholder" loading="lazy" data-id="530"></figure><hr><p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/about-us/" title=""></a></p><p> Liz Roth-Johnson received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at UCLA. If she’s not in the lab, you can usually find her experimenting in the kitchen. <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/author/lizrothjohnson/" title=""><em>Read more by Liz Roth-Johnson</em></a></p><div data-embedid="4b651d8f-ea11-445f-9ea7-e776ca36eef3" id="insticator-embed-temp"></div><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/8454/profileimagesmall-e1371756826543-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/8454/profileimagesmall-e1371756826543-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/8454/profileimagesmall-e1371756826543-s.jpg" title="profileimagesmall-e1371756826543.jpg" loading="lazy" data-id="8454"><figcaption class="fr-figcaption"><p class="fr-caption"></p></figcaption></figure><p><strong>About the author:</strong></p><hr>

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At our 2014 Science of Sushi event, Dr. Ole Mouritsen and Chef Morihiro Onodera illuminated the science underlying some of our favorite components of sushi. In case you still haven’t had your fill, here are 10 scientific facts related to sushi: Liz Roth-Johnson received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at UCLA. If she’s not in the lab, you can usually find her experimenting in the kitchen. Read more by Liz Roth-Johnson About the author:

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