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    Taste is a complex process involving multiple senses. As food enters the mouth, aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose, while textures and temperatures also contribute to flavor perception. Taste receptors on the tongue detect basic tastes which send signals to the thalamus and then frontal lobe of the brain, where our conscious experience of flavor arises from an integration of taste, smell, texture, and temperature cues. Contrary to older ideas, all taste receptors are present across the tongue rather than being regionally specialized.

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    Taste is a complex process involving multiple senses. As food enters the mouth, aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose, while textures and temperatures also contribute to flavor perception. Taste receptors on the tongue detect basic tastes which send signals to the thalamus and then frontal lobe of the brain, where our conscious experience of flavor arises from an integration of taste, smell, texture, and temperature cues. Contrary to older ideas, all taste receptors are present across the tongue rather than being regionally specialized.

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    Taste is a complex process involving multiple senses. As food enters the mouth, aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose, while textures and temperatures also contribute to flavor perception. Taste receptors on the tongue detect basic tastes which send signals to the thalamus and then frontal lobe of the brain, where our conscious experience of flavor arises from an integration of taste, smell, texture, and temperature cues. Contrary to older ideas, all taste receptors are present across the tongue rather than being regionally specialized.

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    014 // 015 The Science of Taste and Flavor

    How do we
    TASTE?
    Taste is a surprisingly complex process. Taste signals are relayed to the
    thalamus, which passes signals
    to other regions of the brain.
    A multisensory experience, taste involves
    aroma, texture, and heat, all combining to create
    an overall impression. As you inhale, airborne
    molecules of food are
    As you lift food to your lips, before any food
    vacuumed up into the nose.
    actually reaches the tongue, aromas flood
    the nostrils. Teeth then break down food,
    releasing more aromas, and the food’s When signals reach the frontal
    lobe, we become aware of what
    texture, or “mouthfeel,” becomes
    we are smelling and tasting.
    critical to its appreciation. In the
    mouth, more flavor-carrying
    particles waft to the back of
    FRONTAL
    the oral cavity, up to the smell THALAMUS
    LOBE
    receptors, but now they are
    experienced as if coming from the
    tongue. Sweet, salty, bitter, sour,
    umami, and fatty taste receptors
    (see opposite) are stimulated, and
    a cascade of messages filters to the
    brain. As you chew, hot food cools,
    increasing taste intensity: at 86–95ºF
    (30–35ºC), taste receptors are most active. TONGUE

    MYTH BU STER

    Myth
    Taste receptors on the
    DIFFERENT TONGUE REGIONS DETECT DIFFERENT TASTES tongue register basic tastes.

    Truth
    In 1901, German scientist D. P. Hänig promoted the idea Nerves carry taste
    that different tastes were stronger in different parts of the messages to the brain.
    tongue. This research was later used to create a “taste map.”
    Now, we know that all tastes are sensed across the tongue Aroma molecules pass to the smell sensors
    and difference in sensitivity across the tongue is negligible. NERVE PATHWAYS at the back of the nose. Here the brain
    FOR TASTE interprets them as taste from the mouth.

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