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the only sense that votes before your brain finishes the meeting
means The sense by which you detect flavor on the tongue, or more broadly, your discernment about what is good, elegant, or appropriate.
from From Old French 'taster,' meaning to touch, feel, or sample, which came to English in the medieval period. The root traces back to Latin, possibly a blend of 'tangere' (to touch) and 'gustare' (to taste) — so the word literally began as touching before it settled onto the tongue. The leap from 'sampling food' to 'good judgment' is an old one: by the time English borrowed it, taste already carried the idea that to sample something well is to know what's worth having.
- five flavors
- sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savory umami
- not the tongue
- taste maps are a debunked schoolbook myth
- fading fast
- taste buds regenerate every ten days or so
- smell hijack
- most flavor is actually your nose lying
- bitter alarm
- evolved as a built-in poison detector
umami fifth taste — discovered by kikunae ikeda in 1908, officially recognized by scientists as distinct from sweet/salty/sour/bitter
fat taste oral cavity — identified in 2011 by researchers at purdue university as the sixth basic taste detected by cd36 receptors
capsaicin trpv1 receptor — spicy taste sensation discovered to use pain receptors, not taste buds, by david julius who won 2021 nobel prize