How come it taste gross when we take a drink of something and it’s not what we expected?

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Usually when people drink something and it’s not what they thought they were going to drink they spit it out or react negatively. How does our brain do that?

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It’s not just the drink itself but its characteristics too.

If we expect a drink to have a certain taste, texture, temperature, etc then any incongruency between what our taste receptors report to the brain and what the brain was expecting will usually prompt us to stop drinking so that we can determine what the drink is before we put a potentially dangerous unknown liquid into our body.

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