Taste Learns from Experience – and Remembers What You Eat

Taste recalibrates every day. In this instalment of our Senses series, we look at how diet, local feedback, and brain-immune crosstalk reshape what flavors mean to the body.

Sugar rewrites sensitivity: high-sucrose diets reduce sweet nerve responses and the number of PLCβ2-positive taste cells – all reversible once sugar is removed.

Taste glia fine-tune sweetness: type I cells use P2RY2 signaling to dampen prolonged sweet responses, preventing signal overload during sustained stimulation.

Nerves sustain taste circuitry: when gustatory fibers are lost, presynaptic proteins such as Bassoon and CALHM1 disappear, revealing that innervation keeps receptor cells functional.

The insula recalls immune states: a cortical loop linking the anterior and posterior insula reactivates immune responses to conditioned taste cues.

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Taste operates as a continuously updated system, and it’s tuned by what the body eats, senses, and remembers.

How Taste Adapts: Diet, Sensory Feedback, and Immune Memory Reshape Flavor Processing

Taste isn’t static — it learns, forgets, and rewires. Discover how diet, nerves, and the brain-immune loop reshape flavor perception from the tongue to the cortex.

Read the full blog: https://www.alomone.com/how-taste-adapts-diet-sensory-feedback-and-immune-memory-reshape-flavor-processing