Science Behind Taste

Hey guys, I was just thinking about what could be the logical reason behind taste. Well I know its just taste, may be you can say its taste of buds or taste which is sweet, sour, bitter, or salty, but have you ever imagined that there can be science behind how we taste. Trust me there can be science behind every thing, let’s not go in there. Have you ever gave a thought on everyone has different preference on taste. Why one person does eats sprouts and other eats only peas? Taste is one of the senses that added flavor in everybody’s life.

"The sense of taste is a sensory system like the eye,"

     --Ilene Bernstein, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington.

Taste acts as a sense to the perception of combination of the chemical signals that begins when we taste something with our tongue. There are not four categories to taste like sweet, sour, bitter, or salty, there are five which is Umami. Umami is Japanese meaning "pleasant savory taste". Taste is not just what is on your buds but it is more than that as to how food looks smells and sounds. Some food has a crunch while eating them or there are few drinks from them we get certain aroma.

Other factors could be our environment, experience, age and most important is our genes. Genes play a major part in taste preferences, because of different receptors in different homo sapiens aggravates different tastes in different people. Besides genes Experience is also important as we grow we tend to have some liking for the food as we continue to eat  but specific flavours of mother’s diet passes to her infant through amniotic fluid. Although, we can say that everyone has a sweet tooth, according to a research we all tend to have positive responsive to sweet. While, on the other side salt preference is still not cleared but according to a research loss of electrolytes and sodium during morning sickness has an impact on the offspring's.