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Question 1

What are the sensory receptors of your tongue?

Answer 1

Taste buds

Question 2

What does the taste buds detect?

Answer 2

Chemicals contained in your food and drinks

Question 3

What are the 5 main flavours?

Answer 3

Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, Unami

Question 4

Why can you taste the difference between chocola, mocha and coffee?

Answer 4

Foods and drinks don’t only contain the five main flavours but also lots of subtle flavours

Question 5

How are subtle flavours identified?

Answer 5

As saliva mixes with the chemicals in your food and drinks, the odours travel up your growth and into your nasal cavity towards your olfactory cells. The nerve impulses from your taste buds and olfactory cells are combined by your brain.

Question 6

How was the flavour Unami identified?

Answer 6

Kikunae Imelda wondered why his seaweed soup was so delicious and isolated the chemicals responsible for the flavour: Unami

Question 7

In what sorts of food is Unami found?

Answer 7

Meat, aged cheese, seafood, tofu and tomatoes