Nutrition for Dummies by Rinzler Carol Ann;

Author:Rinzler, Carol Ann;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2016-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

Tackling Taste: How Your Brain and Tongue Work Together

Your taste buds are sensory organs that enable you to perceive different flavors in food — in other words, to taste the food you eat.

Taste buds (also referred to as taste papillae) are tiny bumps on the surface of your tongue (see Figure 15-1). Each one contains groups of receptor cells that anchor an antenna-like structure called a microvillus, which projects up through a gap (or pore) in the center of the taste bud, sort of like a thread sticking through the hole in Life Savers candy. (For more about the microvilli and how they behave in your digestive tract, see Chapter 2.)

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FIGURE 15-1: Your tongue up close.

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