🍇🍉The Underrated Sense of Taste: Why We Taste More Than Just Food

🍕How Our Sense of Taste Influences Our Perception, Health, and Emotions

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The sense of taste is often merely seen as a tool to determine whether food is delicious or unpleasant. However, taste has a much greater impact on our lives than we often give it credit for. It influences not only what we eat and how we experience it, but also has a profound effect on our well-being and emotions. In this post, I want to invite you on a journey of discovery, to show you why we should appreciate our sense of taste even more.

🍓More Than Just the Five Basic Tastes

Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami — most of us are familiar with these five basic tastes. But did you know that our sense of taste is closely linked to our sense of smell? In fact, about 80% of the taste we experience comes from our sense of smell. So, if you’ve ever had a cold and noticed how bland food tastes when your nose is blocked, you’ve experienced this firsthand.

The Science Behind Taste

Let’s break down the science:

• Our taste buds on the tongue detect chemical compounds in food.
• This information is then sent to the brain, where it is combined with smell information.
• The brain processes these…