taste page 2

taste page 2 by ric gustafson


Our sense of taste is largely due to what we smell. Seventy five to ninety five percent of taste is smell. We smell aromas through smell molecules called volatiles. Some foods like citrus fruit contain many volatiles and some like salt very little.
The nose is lined with a thin layer of mucus. This mucus is full of tiny hairs called cilia. When a smell enters the mucus, cilia help flush smell particles down the throat. When a smell signal reaches the brain, a memory of that signal remains. Humans are very sensitive to smell.


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