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Scientists, Using A New Technique, Have Now Confirmed And Identified The Part Of The Brain That’s Responsible For The Five Taste Groups: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter And Umami. An Older Cortex, A Specific Portion Of The Insular Cortex, In The Brain, Hidden Behind The Neocortex, Is Said To Be Responsible For This.

https://www.sciencealert.com/now-we-know-the-part-of-the-brain-that-tells-us-what-we-re-tasting

How exactly do our brains sort between the five taste groups: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami? We’ve now got a much better idea, thanks to research that has pinned down where in the brain this taste processing happens.