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Myrna Fossum And Beth Kimmerle. Presented at the 2015 conference
To our brains, taste is actually a mash-up of a food’s flavor, its aroma and its touch or texture into a single experience. This combination begins with sight, followed by smell, and culminates during chewing as information originates from the item we’re eating and connects to our brain. Flavor is the technical term for what we commonly refer to as taste. We detect five separate flavors: sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami. Our brain recognizes those five flavors by using our taste buds, which are located on the tongue and inside the roof of the mouth. Flavors are crucial to survival because they signal what is safe to eat and what is not.
