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  2. Flavor lexicon - Wikipedia

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    Flavor lexicons (American English) or flavour lexicons (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) are used by professional taste testers to develop and detail the sensory perception experienced from food. The lexicon is a word bank developed by professional taste testers in order to identify an objective, nuanced and cross-cultural word ...

  3. Taste - Wikipedia

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    Taste buds and papillae of the human tongue Taste receptors of the human tongue Signal transduction of taste receptors. Taste is a form of chemoreception which occurs in the specialised taste receptors in the mouth. To date, there are five different types of taste these receptors can detect which are recognized: salt, sweet, sour, bitter, and ...

  4. Taste bud - Wikipedia

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    The type II taste bud cells make up about another third of the cells in the taste bud and express G-protein coupled receptors that are associated with chemoreception. They usually express either type 1 or type 2 taste receptors, but one cell might detect different stimuli, such as umami and sweetness. [5]

  5. Lexical–gustatory synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    The taste is often experienced as a complex mixture of both temperature and texture. For example, in a particular synaesthete, JIW, the word jail would taste of cold, hard bacon. [2] [3] Synesthetic tastes are evoked by an inducer/concurrent complex. The inducer is the stimulus that activates the sensation and the taste experience is the ...

  6. Sense - Wikipedia

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    The other taste modalities result from food molecules binding to a G protein–coupled receptor. A G protein signal transduction system ultimately leads to depolarization of the gustatory cell. The sweet taste is the sensitivity of gustatory cells to the presence of glucose (or sugar substitutes) dissolved in the saliva. Bitter taste is similar ...

  7. Tongue map - Wikipedia

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    The myth of the tongue map: that 1 tastes bitter, 2 tastes sour, 3 tastes salty, and 4 tastes sweet. The tongue map or taste map is a common misconception that different sections of the tongue are exclusively responsible for different basic tastes.

  8. Wine tasting descriptors - Wikipedia

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    Aftertaste: the taste left on the palate after wine has been swallowed. "Finish" is a synonym. [4] Alcoholic: a wine that has an unbalanced presence of too much alcohol. [4] Aroma: the smell of a wine. The term is generally applied to younger wines, while bouquet is reserved for more aged wines. [5]

  9. Sweetness - Wikipedia

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    To depolarize the cell, and ultimately generate a response, the body uses different cells in the taste bud that each express a receptor for the perception of sweet, sour, salty, bitter or umami. Downstream of the taste receptor, the taste cells for sweet, bitter and umami share the same intracellular signalling pathway. [34]