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How does your tongue help you to taste food?

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Tongue is a well known sense organ for taste, but it is not alone responsible for taste. We sense the food with the help of Gustatory System, which typically involves- Taste receptors, cranial nerve and a part of brain know as gustatory cortex. read more

Taste buds are sensory organs that are found on your tongue and allow you to experience tastes that are sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. Taste buds have very sensitive microscopic hairs called micro villi. read more

Each group of taste buds in different areas of your tongue and throat helps you recognize different types of taste sensations: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. When you put a piece of food in your mouth, the chemicals in it alert the taste buds to carry “taste messages” through your nerve cells to your brain. read more

The tongue not only detects gustatory (taste) sensations, but also helps sense the tactile, thermal and even painful stimuli that give food its flavor. Most people mistake the bumpy structures that cover the tongue's surface for taste buds. read more

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