What is taste?

Taste is how food feels inside your mouth, kind of like how a toy feels when you grab it.

Your tongue has little helpers called taste buds, and they work together with your nose to tell you what something is. When you eat an apple, the taste buds on your tongue feel sweet, and your nose smells the fruit, that’s how you know it's an apple!

• Sweet feels like eating a candy bar.
• Salty is like snacking on pretzels.
• Bitter is what you taste when you drink green tea.
• Sour makes your mouth pucker, just like lemon juice.

Sometimes, things can have more than one flavor. Like chocolate, it's sweet, but if it’s dark chocolate, it also has a little bitterness.

When you eat, your brain gets a message from your tongue and nose, and that helps you decide if you want to eat more or not. So taste is like a fun game inside your mouth, it tells you what's good to eat! Taste is how food feels inside your mouth, kind of like how a toy feels when you grab it.

Your tongue has little helpers called taste buds, and they work together with your nose to tell you what something is. When you eat an apple, the taste buds on your tongue feel sweet, and your nose smells the fruit, that’s how you know it's an apple!