Understanding Human Taste Perception
Despite the significance of taste to both human gratification and survival, a basic understanding of this primal sense is still unfolding.Taste provides both pleasure and protection. Often taken for granted, the sense of taste evaluates everything humans put into their mouths. Taste mediates recognition of a substance and the final decision process before it is either swallowed and taken into the body, or rejected as inappropriate.
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Filed under: Biology on February 27th, 2008