Taste

Taste

Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is one of the five traditional senses. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with receptors of taste buds.

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    “I taste a liquor never brewed—
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    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

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