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163. The Gift of Food | The Science of Food (Part 3)

Language of God

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The Role of Gustation in Survival and Evolution

This chapter explores how taste, specifically gustation, serves as a detection system to determine if something is harmful or nutrient-dense. It discusses the abundance of bitter taste receptors as a mechanism to detect toxins in plants and avoid consuming them.

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