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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Taste

6. 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

7. 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

8. Smell