Taste Flashcards
1
Q
four taste sensations
A
sweet, salty, sour, bitter
2
Q
new taste sensation
A
umami (glutamate)
3
Q
flavour experience
A
mostly smell +(taste, touch): odours are sent up to nostrils by tongue, cheeks, and throat when swallowing. *taste does not make you decide what food flavours you like
4
Q
How do we taste?
A
-transduction happens as soon as you put food in your mouth because we have receptors on tongue, palate, mucus lining of cheeks, lips, throat, tonsils.
-on the tongue: papillae are the bumps containing the taste buds which have between 50-100 receptor cells (short life span - they regenerate)
