taste

• The five main senses are touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight.
• The five main sense organs are the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin.
• The tongue is the main sensory organ of the taste sense.
• The upper surface of a tongue is covered with taste buds wich contain taste receptors
• Taste buds sit on top of these papillae but are not visible to the human eye.
• The tongue uses taste buds to determine the type of food and send taste signals back to our brains.
• There are five elements of taste perception: salty, sour, bitter, seweet, and umami (or savoury):
• Sweet: like a piece of cake.
• Sour: like a lemon.
• Salty: like a salt.
• Bitter: like a cup of bad coffe.

• All other tastes come from a combination of these four basic taste.Actualy,a fifth basic taste called "Umami"has recently been discovered.Umami is a taste that occurs when foods with glutamate (like MGS) are eaten.

• We can also smell over 10,000 smells. When we eat something, the flavor comes from a combination of taste and smell.