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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Definitions:

Collaborative Forecasting

A process where multiple stakeholders work together to predict future demands, improving supply chain efficiency.

Supply Chains

Networks connecting suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, facilitating the production and delivery of goods to consumers.

=MAPE Function

Stands for Mean Absolute Percentage Error, a statistical measure used to assess the accuracy of forecasting models.

Mean Absolute Percent Error

A measure of prediction accuracy in statistics, representing the average of the absolute percentages of errors between predicted and observed values.