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What happens when a person "imagines" how food could taste like just from looking at it?

What processes are triggered by imagining the taste of food (let's assume it's sealed so that its smell doesn't reach the test subject's nose) only by looking at it, based on memories of food with similar color, shape, texture and size?

If the food seems to be good, usually saliva is generated, but what other things happen?