The Sense Of Taste

Our tongue is the sensory organ for taste.

It can detect four basic tastes :
• Salty
• Sweet
• Sour
• Bitter

• The chemicals of the food dissolve in our saliva as we chew. The dissolved chemicals then stimulate the taste receptors in our taste buds to produce nerve impulses, which are then sent to the brain where they will be indentified as tastes.

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