Chapter
How Our Brains Use Taste to Keep Us Alive
24:35 - 30:30 (05:55)
This podcast discusses how our sense of taste, through the use of different taste receptors in the mouth, helps us identify foods that are necessary for our survival by activating neural circuits that induce either a reward response or aversion response.
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Our preference for certain tastes such as sweet, umami, and salt, and aversion to bitter and sour, may be hardwired in our neural circuits to ensure we consume essential nutrients and avoid harmful substances.
24:35 - 30:30 (05:55)
Science/Nutrition
Summary
Our preference for certain tastes such as sweet, umami, and salt, and aversion to bitter and sour, may be hardwired in our neural circuits to ensure we consume essential nutrients and avoid harmful substances. Fat texture preference, however, is not linked to any specific taste.