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Tongue – Taste or Gustaoception
• The tongue helps in perceiving various tastes and flavours.
• The taste buds are present between the papillae on the tongue.
These help in sensing different tastes.
• The senses of smell and taste tend to work together. If one could
not smell something, they could not taste it either.
• The sense of taste is also known as gustaoception.
• Taste buds on the tongue contain chemoreceptors and four
different types of taste buds and each one can detect different
types of tastes like sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness.
