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palatable (adjective):

1 : agreeable to the palate or taste
2 : agreeable or acceptable to the mind

Source : Merriam -Webster

Etymology : Palatable comes from palate, a word for the roof of the mouth, which itself comes from Latin palatum. The palate was once thought of as the seat of the sense of taste, so the word eventually came to mean “sense of taste,” or broadly, “liking.”

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