According to a Tasting Robot created by NEC, we humans Taste like prosciutto and bacon.  Originally built for wine tasting, this robot has an infrared spectrometer at the end of its left arm which fires off a beam of light when objects are placed in front of it. The light is then analyzed to determine the chemical composition of the object.  

When it is identifying a wine, it will tell you the type, brand, and what flavor it may have. At the moment it can only identify a few dozen wines though. It can also tell you if a food is too salty or fatty and if a fruit is ripe or not.

The discovery this robot made about how we taste was found during a media event when a reporter and cameraman placed their hands in front of the robot’s infrared light. The analysis came back that we taste like pork. Hopefully Robots are vegetarian.