What are the basic tastes? Where is information about taste detected in the body? In this lesson students taste four mystery substances and learn that the tongue is covered with taste buds, which contain taste receptors that communicate with the brain, and that the brain determines the flavors we experience.

Concepts

taste buds, sense of taste

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Additional Tags

flavor, taste, taste receptors, tongue, our sense of taste

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)