XGEN 2024 - International Conference of Scientific Communications

From drinking some morning coffee to grabbing a muffin on the way home from work, our senses are constantly working on providing us with a full sensorial tasting experience, a “flavour”, an encompassment of physical, chemical and neurophysiological attributes, with a sprinkle of influences coming from the sociological and psychological aspects of eating. But what about this activity compels humans so much that it has become a multi-trillion dollar industry? How do we perceive taste and why did we evolve to discern between different flavours? These are some of the questions that I’m going to be providing an answer for in my project.