Senses and Stuff

 Among the 5 senses I chose to talk about our sense of tastes.

Here is the link to the article I chose: Taste

The article discusses the basic tastes of sweet, salty, sour and bitter and what elements or acids each one is associated with. Our sense of smell works in tandem with our sense of taste to produce flavor. More research is being done on what different things we can taste; they are alkaline, water-like, metallic, and fatty. They are different types of papillae located on different areas of the tongue. I think it's really interesting how the sense of smell has a big part in our taste. It is also interesting how there are so many components of the tongue that need to be accounted for for us to taste. I was shocked to find out spicy isn't a type of taste because it doesn't fall in a category of the basic tastes.