So , is there a change in the receptors , the distribution , the number , the sensitivity , et cetera that can explain the transition from wanting to avoid vegetables to being willing to eat vegetables simply in childhood to to early . I'm gonna take the question slightly differently , but I think it will illustrate the point and , and I wanna just illus use the difference between the olfactory system and the taste system to make the point taste system . Five basic palettes .
This , this accommodates two important things . In the case of taste , you have neurons at every station that are for sweet , for sour , for bitter , for salty and umami . It's only five classes .
Kids don't seem to like certain vegetables , but they all are hardwired to like sweet tastes . And yet you could also imagine that one of the reasons why they may eventually grow to incorporate vegetables is because of some knowledge that vegetables might be better for them .
It's malleable and is subjected to learning and experience . But unlike the olfactory system is restricted . Yeah , in what you could do with it because its goal is to allow you to get nutrients and survive .
Yeah , in what you could do with it because its goal is to allow you to get nutrients and survive . The goal of the olfactory system is very different . It's being used , not in our case , but in every animal species to , you know , identify friend versus foe , to identify mate , to identify ecological niches they wanna be in .
