Human Senses 1. Smell and Taste (4 of 21)

Human Senses

The koala is now threatened with extinction all because it refuses to try new tastes.
It couldn't be more different to us.
We're one of the world's greatest omnivores.
We can survive across the globe, because where ever we go we can always find something we like to eat.
Here in Mexico City, there's a restaurant where if it flies, crawls, slithers, or walks its on the menu.
l'll have those.
That looks interesting.
Sauteed grasshoppers flash fried caterpillars and boiled cacti; it's all on offer.
There are representatives from all of the kingdoms here.

Plants, animals and fungal.
There are amphibian like frogs with green sauce with rice.
And Reptiles like iguana.
Whether we're vegetarians or meat eaters, there's one thing about our sense of taste that we all have in common.
We're willing to try new things we've never tasted before.
The really adventurous will even try these caterpillars.
don't...
with that.
So here goes.
We'll try just about anything, but we rely on our sense of taste to tell us what we should actually swallow.
Youngsters reject quite a lot of food.
They tend to turn down anything remotely bitter.
We start off disliking bitter tastes because our sense of taste is trying to steer us clear of danger.