Does food actually has taste? Or is it just our brains releasing chemicals that tells us that it has “taste”?

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Does food actually has taste? Or is it just our brains releasing chemicals that tells us that it has “taste”?

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This is actually quite philosophical. You actually bring up an interesting thought experiment about the “If a tree falls in a forest”, but instead we ask, “If there is food but no one is around to taste it, does it have taste?” Food has chemical compounds that can stimulate taste receptors, but taste perception is subjective and depends on brain processing. In this sense, food inherently has taste properties, but the experience of taste only exists when someone consumes and perceives it.