TASTE MASKING TECHNOLOGIES: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND NOVEL APPROACHES
Bhagyashree Patra*, Sradhanjali Patra, Parimita Sahu and Ananya Kumari Aich
Abstract
Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is the sensation produced
when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste
receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on
the tongue. Taste, along with smell (olfaction) and trigeminal
nerve stimulation (registering texture, pain, and temperature),
determines flavors of food or other substances. Humans have taste
receptors on taste buds (gustatory calyculi) and other areas including
the upper surface of the tongue and the epiglottis. The gustatory
cortex is responsible for the perception of taste. The tongue is covered
with thousands of small bumps called papillae, which are visible to the
naked eye. Within each papilla are hundreds of taste buds.
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