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Taste SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Color pp.26–27
▸ ▸ Brain p.45
When we eat food, tiny bumps in our mouth sense if it ▸ ▸ Digestion p.79
tastes sweet, sour, salty, savory, or bitter. The mouth ▸ ▸ Food p.106
sends information to our brain, which works out the ▸ ▸ Fruit and seeds

flavors of what we are eating and drinking. p.115
▸ ▸ Smell p.232

Taste and smell
The sense of taste from the
tongue and the sense of smell
from the nose work together to
tell us how our food tastes.

Sour
Lemons, limes,
and grapefruit
Bitter taste sour. A
Bitter-tasting sour taste can
foods include also be a warning
olives, coffee that food has
beans, and gone bad.
cocoa beans.

Savory
Savory flavors
include soy
sauce and
Salt parmesan
Salt is added to cheese.
dishes to help them
to taste better. Our
bodies need a small
amount of salt to
stay healthy, but too
much salt is bad for us.

The body regrows
Taste buds all of our taste buds
The little bumps in every two weeks.
our tongue and
mouth have tiny
taste sensors in
them called taste
buds. We have
around 10,000 Sweet
taste buds. Foods such as honey and
fruit taste sweet because of
the natural sugar they contain.

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