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Sentido del gusto

Taste is one of the senses. taste the flavor is to record and identify soluble substances in saliva through some of its chemical qualities. Basics



Although taste is the weakest of the senses, is attached to the nose, which completes its function by olfactory papillae. This is because the smell of the food we eat aerodigestive fork ascends to the olfactory mucosa, and so there is the strange phenomenon, which is that food tested first by the nose. A demonstration of this is what happens to us when we stuffy nose due to a cold: when you eat are all insipid, tasteless.
This sense also is a powerful aid to digestion, because we know that the pleasant sensations of taste stimulates the secretion of saliva and gastric juices. Taste buds play an important role in this regard.

is considered to taste transmission routes depart from the posterior muscle regions of the tongue, through their nerve fibers, leading to excitations centers in témporoccipital lobe (temporal lobe, occipital lobe) of the brain. Each steak has a specific sensitivity nervous, directly related with gustatory areas located on the tongue.


Five primary taste
They correspond to the five flavors that are considered.
• Taste bitter as quinine
• Salty taste, such as sodium chloride (common salt) or sea water
• Sweet taste, like sugar
• Sour taste, like lemon or umami
• Tasty: as glutamate. Umami is the latest tastes added to the list in 1908 by the Japanese physiologist Kikunae Ikeda


• Diseases like Cancer with the language of the lips, is the most common cancerous form of the oral cavity. The evolution of this disease is similar to that of the cancerous ulcer, sometimes preceded by nodular thickening.
• Ageusia is the loss or reduced sense of taste and is a result of upheavals in the language, such as burns, or certain facial palsy (eg Bell's palsy).
• Dysgeusia this disorder distorts the taste of foods and beverages ingested. The distortion of taste is a symptom of depression (psychiatric disease).
• hypogeusia refers to the limited ability to taste and distinguish the basic tastes.