BOW Taste

Taste is the ability of our bodies to chemically analyze substances that we put in our mouths, in order to "screen" food before it is ingested, in case of contamination or a substance we cannot eat. Our tongue works with our noses to identify chemicals, and our olfactory senses play a large role in this process. The different tastes that we perceive (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami) are analyzed by taste buds on our tongues and send a message through our neural network to the brain, which tells us what flavor we seem to taste.