What helps you taste food?

Q: What helps you taste food?

Your tongue. Your tongue is covered in tiny taste buds that tell your brain if food is sweet, sour, salty, or bitter. Your nose helps too, which is why food tastes dull when you have a cold.

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Your elbow

Your tongue
Your tongue is covered in tiny taste buds that tell your brain if food is sweet, sour, salty, or bitter. Your nose helps too, which is why food tastes dull when you have a cold.

Your tongue is covered in tiny taste buds that sense whether food is sweet, sour, salty, or bitter, then send that information straight to your brain.

Your ears help you hear, and your elbow just helps your arm bend — neither one can taste anything at all.

Your nose actually helps taste too, working together with your tongue, which is exactly why food seems to lose its flavor when you have a stuffy cold.

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