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Why Food Taste Bitter When You Are Sick by Smyblueboy(m): 7:37am On Jan 21, 2017 |
It is a common thing among humans that the taste in their mouth suddenly change when they become sick from one or more diseases. These change in taste most times makes the sick individual to feel that the food is bitter and cause the individual to lose the urge to eat. The taste perception process is a simple but a bit complicated cascade but let's simply break it down. The tongue contains taste cells that cluster on each other like banana bunch to form the taste bud and these taste buds appears as group of specialized cells scattered on the tongue called papillae. They are shaped fungiform (mushroom shapes) in front of the tongue and they are are other shapes of the papillae on the side and back of the tongue. The tips of the taste cells reach toward a tiny opening on the tongue (the gustatory pore) through which food chemicals can fall. Various Nerve endings surrounds the base of the taste buds and they are sensitive to taste, touch, temperature and pain system. The nerves carry messages(either taste or smell) to the brainstem which assist in arousal (e.g like from sleep)and then the signal is interpreted in part of the brain called INSULA which helps you know what ithe tase is; whether sweet or not. The smell contributes to our sense of taste, Molecules for smell (the chemicals in the food) move through the back of the throat and reach olfactory nerve endings in the roof of the nose and the molecules bind to these nerve endings, which signals the olfactory lobe(bulb) to send smell messages to two critical parts of the brain. One of those brain part is the section of the temporal lobe (T) which is involved with memory, particularly memories of place (this is why smells can bring back powerful images of your experiences). These are some of the thing that happens that causes you to feel your food tastes bitter: 1. When you become sick (example when you have fever), your temperature rises above normal body temperature Read more http://www.ishstock.info/2017/01/bittermouthtaste.html?m=1 |
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