Duck's Tongue Your Tongue

We use the taste buds on our tongue to decide what foods we like or don’t like. A duck has a tongue, too, but its taste buds are in the lining of its mouth and the tip of its bill. We have almost 9000 taste buds. Most ducks have between 50 and 500 taste buds. Since people have many more taste buds, you can easily do this experiment. You’ll learn how different places on your tongue are responsible for recognizing the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. WHAT YOU NEED: water, salt, sugar, vinegar, non-sweetened cocoa powder, and four blunt toothpicks WHAT YOU DO The food you eat must be mixed with a liquid for your taste buds to work. So in this experiment, you’ll dip a toothpick…

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