Do you think that only your tongue helps you taste? Think again, there is so much that your tongue doesn’t do. Like without saliva the food that you love would become very dry, tasteless and plain to you.
Not only does saliva bring moisture to your food but food also dissolves in it and washs over your taste giving you the taste. Saliva helps chemicals in the food get carried to the back of your nose, where you can recognize the smell.
Kids are often fussy about their food, this is because they have more taste buds than adults. Kids have more taste buds than adults, because they are way more unlikely to smoke or drink very hot tea and coffee.
Besides whatever's inside your mouth your nose also plays a big role in tasting. If your nose is blocked you will be not be able to taste so well. If you have to eat something which you don’t want to pinch your nose and eat it.
Your eyesight also plays a big role in tasting. When you look at the food it might seem appetizing or it might seem revolting. It also helps you in deciding what flavour or type it is. Ie red lollipop=strawberry lollipop.
Wasabi isn’t hot because of the taste, it’s because the chemicals in hot foods activate the pain receptors. Pain receptors are like taste receptors they detect taste, but there's one little difference pain receptors detect hotness.
By now, you’ve probably learnt something, let’s see. We learnt: Why kids are so fussy about their food and why adults lose taste. We also learned that wasabi’s hot because of the chemicals in it, and that sight and nose also help.
