How does tongue helps in identifying tastes
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That's because the top of your tongue is covered with a layer of bumps called papillae .Papillae help grip food and move it around while you chew.
And they contain your taste buds, so you can taste everything from apples to zucchini! People are born with about 10,000 taste buds.
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The tongue and "taste" really only allow you to perceive sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness and savouriness (or umami). What many people associate with as "flavour" is really coming from "smell". Texture aside, Taste alone probably wouldn't allow you to tell the difference between strawberry flavour and apple flavour. I've completely lost my sense of smell briefly (for a couple of days) on two occasions and without a sense of smell, the flavour of food becomes completely meaningless. It's horrible.
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