ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Flavor is what people commonly call the “taste” of food. It is actually a combination of smell, taste, spiciness, temperature and texture. Much of the flavor of food comes from smell, so that when you are unable to smell you have lost much of your ability to experience flavor.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although humans commonly distinguish taste as one sense and smell as another, they work together to create the perception of flavor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Taste buds have very sensitive microscopic hairs called microvilli (say: mye-kro-VILL-eye). Those tiny hairs send messages to the brain about how something tastes, so you know if it’s sweet, sour, bitter, or salty. The average person has about 10, 000 taste buds and they’re replaced every 2 weeks or so.

Detailed explanation-4: -Taste perception or gustation is the sensory detection of food on the tongue.

Detailed explanation-5: -The way our brains perceive these stimuli is what we refer to as taste, with there being five recognised basic tastes: salty, bitter, sweet, sour and umami.