Your Gut Can Taste Too? Sense of Taste Unveiled

Did you know that it’s not just the tongue that has a sense of taste? In this video, Insoo Hyun, Director of the Center for Life Sciences at the Museum of Science, describes how a recent study has shown that the gut also has a sense of taste that you’re not conscious of. This study examined how sensors in the gut respond to molecules of food by triggering essential digestion processes. This expands our conception of what taste is in exciting ways!