taste

     

Taste (or, more formally, gustation) is a form of irect chemoreception and is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the smacks of substances such as food and poisons. In humans and many other vertebrate animals the sense of taste partners with the less direct sense of smell, in the brain's perception of flavor. In the West, experts traditionally identified four taste sensations: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. Eastern experts traditionally identified a fifth, called umami. More recently, psychophysicists and neuroscientists have suggested other taste categories (umami and fatty acid taste most prominently, as well as the sensation of metallic and water tastes, although the latter is commonly disregarded due to the phenomenon of taste adaptation.)

Trivia about taste

  • "If you don't have Schlitz, you don't have gusto," but you still have this, your gustatory sense
  • The lingual papillae are the main locale for this sense
  • The Romans first said, "De gustibus non est disputandum" meaning "There is no disputing about" this
  • Petronius, author of the "Satyricon", was known as "Elegantiae Arbiter" or "Arbiter of" this
  • Gustatory receptors are special cells that give you your sense of this
  • 1988:"Good time. Great" this
  • It's the sense that Simple Simon asks to use
  • You can have a lack of it in fashion, or use chemoreceptor cells to aid it at Chuck E. Cheese's

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