Week 4

Welcome back dedicated blog followers! 

This week 4, so we will need to dive deeper into cool information about our senses. I picked this article that talks about how taste if affected by the smell and the presentation of the food. It talks about how even though taste and sight isn't technically part of taste, it does influence perception. Cells that recognize these flavors reside in taste buds located on the tongue and the roof of the mouth when food if placed in the mouth, but concurrently, we also activate our sensory cells to perceive qualities such as temperatures, spiciness, or creaminess. Additionally, when we smell food, the information gathered by these cells is relayed to the mouth via olfaction referral which effects our perception of what the food will taste like. To try this, if you hold your nose and place a strawberry jelly bean in your mouth and chew, but you would only be able to detect sweetness and a little sourness. However, if you open your nose, the odor molecules will travel through your nasal cavity to the smell cells, and suddenly the jelly bean has a strawberry flavor. 

I think it is extremely cool to see how different senses interact with other sense. In this case both the sense of smell and sight helps us perceive the sense of taste better. This was a completely new concept that I have never seen really thought about until I tried to do the experiment myself. 

More of this week...

• For this week, I was introduced to the Color IQ test. I apparently got a perfect score, which I honestly didn't think would happen.

• As for the cheese, there isn't much to say. I think it is extremely gross and I would never eat something like that regardless of how good it taste.

• After reading the article about blue light, it opened my eyes about the impact it had on me. From now on I will try to limit my usage of devices before I sleep to limit the harm it does.