taste

Also known as gustatory perception, gustation

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Research

65,523 papers

Sugars and Sweet Taste: Addictive or Rewarding?ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Greenberg D, St Peter JVDOI: 10.3390/ijerph18189791
Basic Taste: A Perceptual Concept.ReviewJournal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2019Beauchamp GKDOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b03542
Temporal patterns in taste sensitivity.ReviewNutrition reviews · 2024Costanzo ADOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuad097
The evolution of sour taste.ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Frank HER, Amato K, Trautwein M et al.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1918
Human taste genetics.ReviewAnnual review of genomics and human genetics · 2005Drayna DDOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.6.080604.162340
Semaglutide and Taste in Women With Obesity and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Jensterle M, Kovac J, Vovk A et al.DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgaf278
Taste and weight: is there a link?ReviewThe American journal of clinical nutrition · 2009Donaldson LF, Bennett L, Baic S et al.DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27462Q
Impact of Taste on Food Choices in Adolescence-Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2020Bawajeeh AO, Albar SA, Zhang H et al.DOI: 10.3390/nu12071985

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Article

40 sections

Contents

Basic tastes
Sweetness
Sourness
Saltiness
Bitterness
Savoriness
Perceptual independence from salty and sweet taste
Measuring relative tastes
Functional structure
Sweetness
Saltiness
Sourness
Bitterness
Savoriness
Further sensations and transmission
Pungency (also spiciness or hotness)
Coolness
Numbness
Astringency
Metallicness
Fat taste
Heartiness
Calcium
Temperature
Starchiness
Nerve supply and neural connections
Taste in insects
Other concepts
Supertasters
Aftertaste
Acquired taste
Clinical significance
Disorders of taste
History
Research
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

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The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste. Taste is the perception stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue. Taste, along with the sense of smell and trigeminal nerve stimulation (registering texture, pain, and temperature), determines flavors of food and other substances. Humans have taste receptors on taste buds and other areas, including the upper surface of the tongue and the epiglottis. The gustatory cortex is responsible for the perception of taste.