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    KEYWORDS- spice, dried spice, fresh spice, health benefits, medicine, patents, food is medicine     AVERAGE READING TIME- 8 MINS                             This article furnishes information on the taste of spice. Spice is one of the essential six tastes. Spice along with the other tastes are experienced in the tongue. Each region in the tongue is designated to a unique taste. The food molecules bound to certain receptors present in that particular region of the tongue. There are some specialized cells in the tongue called gustatory cells. These cells contain gustatory hairs which house the receptors for several tastes. The molecules upon binding with the respective receptor triggers the release of certain substances which get converted into electrical signals. These signals on reaching the appropriate region in the brain get perceived as the corresponding taste. The response to these mol...

  KEYWORDS:- bitter, ancient, toxic, gene, children, tastes AVG READING TIME - 7 mins The foods present all over the world fall into these six tastes- sweet, salt, spicy, bitter, sour, and umami. It is essential that there must be a balance in the six tastes to keep the body in balance. Our ancestors used to have a diet that had all those six tastes in harmony and that could be a reason for them being healthy. On the contrary, the younger generation tends to like and have only three tastes namely sweet, salt and spicy, and even sometimes sour. Most of the children in this generation would not have even experienced all the six tastes. Most of them would not know how umami tastes and they would have known it through study. Most of the children in this generation love to eat sweet, spicy, and salty foods and sometimes sour food but they hate to eat bitter food. There will be happiness and joy in the face of a child when he is given a packet of chips or ice cream but the face e...