TASTING BY SMELL.
Strange to say a good deal of our “tasting” is done by smell. The organs of smell convey to the brain their opinion of our food before tongue “tastes” operate at all. We actually taste however, with the tongue. This has on it a number of tiny “pimples” and one of their purposes is to taste for us. Speaking scientifically, there are only four real tastes —sweet, bitter, acid and salt; and the cells whose job it is to report the presence of any one of these tastes tie in different parts of the tongue. The sweet cells are mostly towards the tip, the bitter cells to the back, and so on. Each group of cells, on touching food that stimulates it, sends its report to the. brain and so we say we “taste.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2581, 17 May 1923, Page 4
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137TASTING BY SMELL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2581, 17 May 1923, Page 4
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