How do we taste?
1. Transduction of taste stimuli by taste cells.
Taste buds found throughout oral cavity, oropharynx and epiglottis.
Processing of taste stimuli not simple - different tastes detected by different mechanisms, and processed in the taste bud before afferent nerves are stimulated.
Actually at least 5 tastes (if not more) and some are detected in more than one way.
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