Briana Perry Kevin Pate Anthony Hamilton Taste and Smell Briana Perry Kevin Pate Anthony Hamilton

Taste Involves basic sensation Sweet Sour Salty Bitter Unami – meaty taste

Taste cont. A chemical sense 50 to 100 taste receptor Each bump on your tongue has 200+ taste buds The number decrease with age 50 to 100 taste receptor Each respond to a specific basic sensation Reproduce every week or two If you lose the taste sensation on one side of your tongue the other side would become supersensitive

Taste Cont. Sensory interaction the principle that one sense may influence another smell + texture + taste = flavor can influence what we hear, see and touch Smell has an impact on the way we taste foods. foods eating may not be fun when you have a cold to enjoy taste we usually take in the aroma

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Smell A chemical sense You inhale and exhale nearly 20,000 breaths of life sustaining air a day We smell once molecules carried in air reach 5 million receptor cells at the top of your nasal They instantly alert the brain through their axon fibers

Smell cont. Ability to identify scents peaks in early adulthood Mother and their child can sense each other scents Odor molecules come in many shapes and sizes You can produce over 10,000 scents you can detect You have a signature scent

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