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Arrow-Puffin-3_Semester-1 Science 249TONGUE You eat different kinds of food. Your tongue gives you the sense of taste. Have you ever wondered why foods taste different?The tongue and roof of your mouth are covered with thousands of tiny taste buds. When you eat something, the saliva in your mouth helps to break down the food. This makes your taste buds send information to the brain. Your brain then tells you the taste or flavour of the food you are eating. Amazing, isn%u2019t it?The taste buds play the most important part in helping you enjoy the many flavours of food. Your taste buds can recognise four basic kinds of tastes - sweet, salty, sour and bitter. The salty and sweet taste buds are located near the front of your tongue, the sour taste buds line the sides of your tongue and the bitter taste buds are found at the back of your tongue.Name the four basic kinds of tastes our taste buds can recognise.CheckpointbittersoursaltysweetytongueYou have about 10,000 taste buds on your tongue and the roof of your mouth.Did you know?Care of your tongueWhat if you could not taste anything?You would not be able to enjoy the different flavours of food. So, care a little for your tongue!Here%u2019s how you can do it.Clean your tongue gently with a tongue cleaner after brushing your teeth.Do not eat anything too hot. It can burn your tongue.35Do not eat too salty or sour food with a lot of chilly in it.