Taste
• Smell, sight, touch and sound work in unison with your taste
buds to create an impression of flavour. Expectation plays
a big part too: If someone tells you that you will not enjoy
a flavour, chances are that you will not!
• Scientists found that people associate ham with salt – so
simply adding a subtle ham-like scent or flavour to a food
(such as “liquid smoke”) can make your brain perceive a
food as saltier than it actually is.
• In blind taste tests, people have rated wines more favorably
when they’re told the wines are more expensive.
• Airplane food tastes bland due to low humidity and low
air pressure. “Bad airplane food” has also been perceived
because of noisy engines, which diminish flavours.
• Studies indicate that many taste preferences are genetic:
An adopted baby from Asia may be more drawn to Asiancultural
foods and flavours rather than those of their
adoptive family’s style of cooking. Scientists say this may
be part of a code written in each person’s DNA.
• Twenty five per cent of people have 100 times more taste buds
than the average person – they’re called “supertasters”and
it’s because of this that they may find some foods overly
sweet or spicy.
• Thinking about food, or just looking at it may make your
mouth water, because brain receptors are activated by
memory and scent.
• Contrary to previous beliefs, the tongue can actually identify
all basic flavours in any part of it – it is not divided into
different sections. There are also taste buds on the roof and
back of the mouth, and on the inner cheeks.
• Like most other senses, the sense of taste worsens with age.
• Flies and butterflies have taste organs on their feet, allowing
them to taste anything they land on.
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Silver & Gold Magazine ~ FALL 2020
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