How do different food types have different tastes?

Question: How do different food types have different tastes?
- Keywords:
  food,
  taste
Asked by anon-267549 on 11 Nov 2020.
- Bradley Young answered on 11 Nov 2020:
  
  Different foods are made of different chemicals like sugars or salts. We have receptors in our mouth and nose which can detect different chemicals and then our brain interprets the taste from the combination of information it’s getting from those receptors.

Question: How do different food types have different tastes?