Name the Four Basic Taste Sensations, Describe the New Fifth

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Essay

Name the four basic taste sensations, describe the new fifth taste, tell how sensitive humans are to each taste and how this difference in sensitivity may have prevented poisonings, and explain why there are so many different flavors if only four (or five)tastes exist.

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