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Taste and Smell

Taste and Smell. What are your favorite tastes and smells?. List 10-15 of your favorite tastes, and 10-15 of your favorite smells. Group all of these into categories based upon similarities. Share with those around you. What were your groups?. Taste.

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Taste and Smell

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  1. Taste and Smell

  2. What are your favorite tastes and smells? • List 10-15 of your favorite tastes, and 10-15 of your favorite smells. • Group all of these into categories based upon similarities. • Share with those around you. • What were your groups?

  3. Taste • Both taste and smell are known as the chemical senses • Importance of taste • Evolutionary • What taste results from • Liquid chemicals stimulate receptors in the taste buds on your tongue. • Information is related to the brain along with data about the texture and temperature of what is in your mouth.

  4. Spiciest Peppers in the World • Hotness of peppers are based upon a scale called a Scovill. • A jalapeño is around 2,500-5,000 Scovill

  5. #5 African Birdseye Pepper- 175,000 Scovill

  6. #4 Datil Pepper- 300,000 Scovill

  7. #3 Habanero Pepper- 350,000 Scovill

  8. #2 Red Savina Habanero Pepper- 580,000 Scovill

  9. #1 BhutJolokia Pepper- 1,041,427 Scovill

  10. Tasting Stations • You will be randomly split up into four groups. • Each group will start at a station, and you will taste what is there. • You will then point to where on your tongue diagram that you felt that taste the most.

  11. The Tongue • Four areas of the tongue that are responsive to different tastes. • Sour • Salty • Bitter • Sweet • Umani

  12. Taste Buds • Around 10,000 taste buds in your mouth, most on your tongue. • When you chew food, the mixture of food and saliva falls into grooves on your tongue and reaches the taste buds. • From the bud the information is relayed to the brain. • Babies

  13. Smell • Sometimes called the “forgotten sense” • Although our sense of smell is feeble compared to other animals it is still very acute. • Can detect a substance as small as one part of multiple billion parts of air • Complex • The brain detects over 300 odors when smelling a rose. • Memory • The sense of smell is the sense with the strongest association to memory. • Allows us to interact with our environment from a distance

  14. Process of Smell

  15. Interdependency of Taste and Smell • The tongue can determine salty, sour, sweet, and bitter. All other perceptions of taste are a result of smell and texture. • Flavor • Taste • Smell • Texture • Temperature • Experience • Starburst activity

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