Monday, October 15, 2012
taste
for some reason i always thought that taste and flavor was the same thing but is not. taste is the sense alone and flavor is the combination the senses of taste and smell. the relation between the this two senses is due to that both of the senses axons converge onto many of the same cells in an area called the endopiriform cortex. this convergence allows the taste and smell combine and make us choose what food we like the most. i remember one time i had a cold and a running nose. i could not smell anything and the food did not have the same flavor. also i have seen those same thing in some flu or cold commercials were someone eats an onion instead of an apple and he didn't taste the flavor of the onion.
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It seems weird that taste and smell are related and how if your sense of smell isn't working properly, then your sense of taste also does not work. I mean, it makes sense but it also doesn't. I enjoyed the video because it really helped me understand why the two are related and what is involved in the process of sense of taste and smell.
ReplyDeleteI know what it feels like when you get sick and cannot enjoy your food because of it. Although, it is funny that we all have expirience this because, but at least I did not stop and think about the relationship between the sense of taste and smell and how it affect me and the way I percieve these two. Somehow I guess I thought that the relationship of how I taste food was just in my tongue. Of course the taste buds are very important, but my point here was more about the case when a person gets sick and we are not able to taste food. Great video, explains what happens with taste and olfactory receptors in a simple way that I was able to understand better than the book. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThis topic made me think of a condition I have, It's called "geographic tongue" and I am now wondering if it has to do with taste or flavor? I'm not sure why I have it. All I know is like less than 2% of people have it and I am one of those lucky few. Which by lucky I mean inconvenient because, my tongue randomly decides to swell up or start to feel weird. Thus, interfering with the flavor of my steak. Also I wonder if both taste and flavor are dependent on each other. Or rather how dependent are they on each other. Can you have one work without the other or are both of them required to enjoy a juicy steak?
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