Coffee study: can you tell Flavor from Taste in black coffee?

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Taste, flavor and aroma are closely related to coffee, wine, food and other fields, but to a certain extent they are not interchangeable. Let's sort out the differences one by one:

What is Taste?

Taste generally refers to the feeling that occurs in the mouth. It refers to all the feelings that our tongues and mouths feel when they come into contact with food (drink).

Our tongues have two kinds of "receivers":

The first kind: taste buds. It covers the whole tongue and can be used to taste food (drink).

The second kind: taste. It is sensed through the peripheral nerves above our mouth and tongue.

* Taste: mainly focus on sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty experiences, and there are two flavors that can also be taste: fresh and metallic.

* Mouth-feel: mainly focus on feeling stickiness, temperature, object size, pain, needling, touch and so on.

What is Aroma?

Aroma is a word often used to express the smell of food. The so-called smell is something that is volatile in the air and can be smelled by our nose. For example, alcohol volatilizes easily and gives off many kinds of odors, which is why perfume also contains alcohol more or less.

The part of our brain that receives smell is called the limbic system, which is located at the front of our brain. It is also involved in the processing of emotion, behavior and long-and short-term memory. And that's why a certain smell brings back memories.

How did we smell the smell? One is through our noses, and the other is through our throats into the nasal cavity. Some studies have also shown that our right brain is better at identifying odors, which may explain why you always think your right nostril is more sensitive than the left one.

What is Flavor?

To put it bluntly, Flavor is a combination of aroma, taste and mouthfeel to express how you feel about what you eat or drink.

Summary

Taste: refers to the feeling in the mouth, including the tongue.

Aroma: the feelings that happen in our noses include all kinds of things we can smell.

The overall feeling brought by Flavor:Taste and Aroma