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Taste Buds 




source: https://foodinsight.org/the-science-of-taste/

Smell enhances the taste of food, throughout the years our taste buds have improved in helping us choose what we should eat and what we shouldn't eat. Such as knowing not to eat something poisonous. taste buds are tiny bumps called papillae. Papillae in the back of your throat is responsible to detect bitterness, fungiform Papillae are located at the tip of your tongue, Foliate papillae are located at the sides of the tongue and last but not least we have circumvallate papillae which form a V at the back of the tongue. 


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