Name: Evolution of Flavor
Uploaded: 2020
Duration: 12 min 45 s
Description: We are obsessed with flavor, yet taste is the most overlooked sense. Surprising new discoveries are changing our understanding of taste, and how it has evolved to keep us alive.

We are obsessed with flavor, yet taste is the most overlooked sense. Surprising new discoveries are changing our understanding of taste, and how it has evolved to keep us alive.

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This episode reveals how taste evolved to help us survive, from detecting nutrients and poisons to shaping the flavors we crave. You will explore surprising discoveries, including receptors that may let the tongue sense smell and taste cells working far beyond the mouth. Sign up to see how an everyday sense is changing our understanding of the body.

Inside your tongue, a hidden sensory system rewrites flavor.

We are obsessed with flavor, yet taste is the most overlooked sense