When you lick frosting off a knife with the tip of your tongue and find the frosting has an orange flavor to it, which cranial nerve is being used to determine the taste of the frosting?

A. facial
B. trigeminal
C. hypoglossal
D. glossopharyngeal
E. abducens


A

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