Posts Tagged ‘sweet taste’
Coffee Flavor
A few years ago, a team of U.S. researchers discovered that cells respond in a specialized language to different flavors. Some are triggered when a sweet taste, others when the food is salty, and so on. Now, this same group has found that this same expertise is also transferred to the way the brain interprets different tastes.
As reflected an experiment with mice, the results are published in the journal Science, there are four groups of neurons in the region of the insular cortex are activated when the tongue taste senses. These areas are Read the rest of this entry »