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How Do We Taste?

How Do We Taste?. Tastes. Sweet Hot Fudge Salty , crunchy chips Sour , puckry lemons Savory , juicy, meaty hamburger Bitter , brewed tea. Check out your tongue!. Soft Velvety texture, tiny points of flesh, looks like a shag carpet. Taste Buds everywhere.

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How Do We Taste?

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  1. How Do We Taste?

  2. Tastes • Sweet Hot Fudge • Salty, crunchy chips • Sour, puckry lemons • Savory, juicy, meaty hamburger • Bitter, brewed tea

  3. Check out your tongue! Soft Velvety texture, tiny points of flesh, looks like a shag carpet

  4. Taste Buds everywhere • Scattered front, back, sides, bumps in various shapes • Even in cheeks and on the roof of your mouth • Born with 10,000, replaced every 2 weeks!

  5. Other Taste Buddies Peanut Butter, thick, smooth, sticky As you chew, salvia begins to digest peanut butter, soon microscopic particles remain, these come into contact with taste buds, and you taste------salty and sweet

  6. Brain gets the info! -Nerves send info to brain -Molecules carry fragrance up through nose To the brain -Brain gets all the messages! Wow peanut butter

  7. Flavor Wizards How do you get a lollipop to taste like Cherries? Flavorists work with extracts, powders, and chemicals. They mix 30 or 40 together, working mostly on the smell and then the taste

  8. Top secret recipes ----- Ice cream, chips, frozen dinners………….

  9. 85% of all taste is smell When the chocolate chip cookies are baking, the fragrance is heavenly!

  10. Foods contain amino acids • Building blocks of protein • Meaty, savory taste that humans like

  11. Pleasant sweet Taste • Also a favorite • Unfortunately, high in calories

  12. Babies and Buds Born with a taste for sweetness---Mother’s Milk

  13. Are All Tongues created equal?

  14. What would you choose….Mint or caramel ice cream? • Different tastes—more or fewer taste buds • Average number of taste buds, probably like most things

  15. Little Taste • 11 buds per square inch • Do not enjoy food • Do not get proper nutrition

  16. Supertasters • 100 times more tastebuds • Do not like spicy, sour, sweets, or food that is too rich.

  17. Add a little salt, and many times the super tasters will eat it!

  18. The End • Information from Meg Moss • Home and Garden Magazine

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