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taste
taste One of the five
senses. It responds to the chemical constituents of anything placed in the mouth. In human beings, the taste buds of the
tongue differentiate four qualities: sweetness, saltiness, bitterness and sourness.
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Taste buds vary widely in numbers, regardless of age.
PR Newswire; 1/14/1988; 700+ words
; ...taste sensation." Studying taste bud variation is just a portion...Among other discoveries: -- Taste buds appear to constantly change...remaining static. "Changing tastes in humans may be due to changing taste bud populations," he said...
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Taste evolves into a banquet
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/7/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...and invited the city to a "Taste of Chicago." Interminably...Park. In the early 1980s, Taste along with the ill-fated ChicagoFest...its last breath in 1982, but Taste survived. Sheahan said one...old ChicagoFests and the old Tastes, and the emphasis was on beer...
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Taste Unlimited buys Medik's Market: The name will change at Medik's, but the product line should expand into new areas.
Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA); 6/29/2007; 700+ words
; ...business by purchasing the South Hampton Roads Taste Unlimited chain and are now buying Medik...store is converted into the flagship for Taste Unlimited. The new owner plans on keeping...fill in the ample excess store space with Taste Unlimited stock. "The enormity of the...
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Taste Receptor Cells Share Common Pathway.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 2/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...about each of these tastes is transmitted from the various taste receptors via a common...genetic manipulation of taste sensations in laboratory...discover how different tastes are perceived in...bitter and umami tastes. Umami is the taste of monosodium glutamate...
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Taste buds engage in cross-talk.
Magazine article from: Science News; 11/11/1989; ; 647 words
; ...ways, even within a single taste bud, before sending their sensory...Moreover, the classical view that taste buds come in only four basic...oversimplified, he says. Although these tastes do represent the four basic...evidence indicates that individual taste buds, each containing about...
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Taste: Acquiring What Money Can't Buy
Magazine article from: The Saturday Evening Post; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Taste: Acquiring What Money Can't Buy by Letitia...pages, Truman Talley Books, $24.95 Has taste gone out of style? With "zillionalres...blue jeans, it seems the very notion of taste may have fled the scene. But manners maven...
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Taste of Home, the # 1 Cooking Magazine in America, Kicks-off the 2nd Annual National Cooks Who Care Week November 9th-15th, 2009.
PR Newswire; 11/3/2009; 700+ words
; Taste of Home Hosts a Week of Food-Related Charitable...GREENDALE, Wis., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Taste of Home, the # 1 cooking magazine in the...selfless individuals who have given back, Taste of Home will host a series of events to engage...
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Taste gene sweetens life, but just for some
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/21/1991; ; 620 words
; ...holds across a variety of tastes, Bartoshuk said...trying to learn what the taste worlds of these three...nothing at all. The new taste sensitivity research...see how wide a range of tastes it covers. Another question...is that the ability to taste the chemical, and to...
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Expensive tastes and distributive justice.
Magazine article from: Social Theory and Practice; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; 1. The Problem of Expensive Tastes Egalitarians believe that a just distribution...the well-known problem of expensive tastes. Suppose that resources have been...person, Alan, cultivates expertsive tastes; he takes a wine-appreciation course...
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TASTE OF CHICAGO AT A GLANCE
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/29/1986; ; 656 words
; Cuisines at Taste of Chicago span the globe. From vegetarian...Portuguese and Russian. Admission to Taste of Chicago is free. To buy food and beverages...tickets at designated ticket booths. No Taste item will cost more than $3.50, and...
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Taste Alteration
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...in the ability to taste foods (hypogeusia), changes in how food tastes (dysgeusia), or...of the ability to taste foods (ageusia...neck can also cause taste alteration. Metallic or medicine-like tastes can be caused by a...
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Taste
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...tongue. The buds for sour tastes are on the sides of the...on the front. Bitter taste buds on the back of the...individuals unable to taste phenylthiocarbamide...chemical that normally tastes very bitter (and used...detecting the ability to taste it). However, some...
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taste
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...aesthetic standard: she has awful taste in literature. ∎...that's a joke in very bad taste . • v. [ tr. ] perceive...specified flavor: the spinach tastes delicious. ∎...poured some wine for him to taste. ∎ eat...
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taste and smell
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
taste and smell When we eat or drink we perceive a sensation that most people call ‘taste’. However, we all know that...types of chemoreceptors are respectively taste and smell. Chemoreceptors are not, however...
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Taste Receptors
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
...potassium channels in taste receptor cell membranes. Membrane Receptor Taste Stimuli In contrast, other tastes including sweetness...cross cell membranes. Taste and smell are well...proteins involved in some tastes have not yet been fully...
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