ESCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Olfactory Bulb, World Resources Institute, Pre-Eclampsia
12 Sep 2018
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Flavor includes smell, taste, texture, environment, and emotional feeling at the time as well as memory. Taste, smell and touch meet in the prefrontal cortex, which helps human identity flavor and whether it triggers feelings or memories, as well as whether we like it. Sensory scientists create groups that help them to analyze food and decode flavors. The video points out an interesting point in that, unlike all other animals on this planet, Summary: humans are very picky when it comes to the taste of our food. We season it, marinate it and cook it to perfection. The urge to make food superb even started explorations. They explain that flavor is a combination of smell, taste and texture, making it much more complex than simple taste. It goes into detail about how the tongue detects the four aspects of taste: bitter, umami, sour, salty and sweet.
