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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Famous quotes containing the word taste:

    “Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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    —Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

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