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A tendency to like or dislike a food based on positive or negative experiences is:
Taste Bias
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If you have a very high number of papillae on your tongue, you are most likely a:
Supertaster
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What is an example of an environmental influence on our food preferences?
Availability of foods, season, climate
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Taste + aroma = ?
Flavor
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T/F: Genetics is an example of a physical influence on food.
True
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What are the 5 tastes?
Salty, sweet, savory/umami, bitter, sour
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What is retronasal olfaction?
Detection of odors through chewing and swallowing
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The chemical sensitivity of the skin and mucous membranes is called:
Chemesthesis
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What is an example of a sound that a food might make?
Cracking, sizzling, popping, etc.
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Olfaction is another word for our sense of ____.
Smell
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The physical sensation made by a food or beverage in the mouth is:
Mouthfeel
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Glutamates in a food usually results in a _________, or "meaty," taste.
Savory
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What is gustation?
Tasting
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The odor of a food is also known as the _____.
Aroma
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What are papillae?
Bumps found on the tongue that enclose hundreds of taste buds each.
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Is the detection of odors through sniffing orthonasal or retronasal?
Orthonasal
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What part of the body/nervous system transmits information about odors to the brain via smell receptors?
Olfactory bulb
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