1. How Do We Taste?

2. We Taste With Our? Taste Buds!
Rough spots on tongues actually do NOT taste; papillae and help create friction to help digest food
Taste buds are located UNDER the bump

3. Taste Bud
Gustatory hair interacts with molecules of food and keeps it there while saliva digests the food
Gustatory receptor cell picks up on the molecules and the sensation is delivered to the brain

4. Taste
4 Primary Tastes
Sweet, salty, bitter, sour
Others: Umami
Water?

5. Taste Fun Facts Omnivores have around 15000 taste buds
Herbivores have around taste buds
Carnivores have the fewest amount of taste buds
Fish can taste not only in their mouth but with their fins as well
Flies and butterflies and most insects taste with their feet
Lizards and reptiles flick out their tongues to bring the piece of food back to the roof of their mouth to taste