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Asked by elizabethlee to Andrew, Ash, Gem, Paige, SJ on 27 Jun 2012.
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Paige Brown answered on 27 Jun 2012:
Well, back in the old days, like for the cavemen, taste was probably a VERY good indicator of whether or not something was healthy and good to eat! Think about it… we know what is healthy to eat because our doctors and parents tell use to eat our vegetables and things that are healthy. How do you know not to eat a rotten banana or rotten fish, that would make you sick? Probably because it smells and tastes terrible (and smell is associated with taste in your brain and senses!). Smell and taste would have been very important in the early days for humans to know what was good to eat and what was bad, rotten, or even poisonous. So you probably got your smell and taste from your ancient ancestors! How cool is that?!!!!!!!!
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Gemma Staite answered on 28 Jun 2012:
I agree with Paige on this one. Even now we use it, if something tastes like it might be bad you wouldn’t eat it in case it makes you sick.
I’m glad we can taste though, I love my food
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SarahJayne Boulton answered on 3 Jul 2012:
The answers above are really smart – our taste sense is like a final check point for food after we’ve seen it, touched it (or at leavet given it a prod…), and sniffed it – all in the effort to check if the food is good to eat or not.
Taste also allows for enjoyment – food always tastes better when you’re hungry as the flavour we percieve in the food intensifies the firing of the ‘reward’ pathways in the brain, releasing more of the happy hormone dopamine as well as crave-making endorphins.
In this mode it’s our body’s making sure that we would eat again when we were hungry!
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