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- Basic tastes
- Sweetness
- Sourness
- Saltiness
- Bitterness
- Savoriness
- Perceptual independence from salty and sweet taste
- Measuring relative tastes
- Functional structure
- Sweetness
- Saltiness
- Sourness
- Bitterness
- Savoriness
- Further sensations and transmission
- Pungency (also spiciness or hotness)
- Coolness
- Numbness
- Astringency
- Metallicness
- Fat taste
- Heartiness
- Calcium
- Temperature
- Starchiness
- Nerve supply and neural connections
- Taste in insects
- Other concepts
- Supertasters
- Aftertaste
- Acquired taste
- Clinical significance
- Disorders of taste
- History
- Research
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|Taste bud
The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste. Taste is the perception stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue. Taste, along with the sense of smell and trigeminal nerve stimulation (registering texture, pain, and temperature), determines flavors of food and other substances. Humans have taste receptors on taste buds and other areas, including the upper surface of the tongue and the epiglottis. The gustatory cortex is responsible for the perception of taste.