Curious Kids: how do tongues taste food?
- Written by Paulomi (Polly) Burey, Senior Lecturer (Food Science), University of Southern Queensland
Your tongue has special parts, bundled together as taste buds, that pick up flavour. But your other senses also help your brain work out how something tastes.Flickr/Jessica Lucia, CC BY-SA
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