Wednesday 16 November 2011

Part of Human Body- Tongue


Tongue is covered by taste buds which can help human to detect various tastes which are bitter, sour, salt and sweet as show in the picture above. 


The tongue will work along with our teeth, lips and mouth when taste, chew and swallow the food that we eat. When taste the food, the tongue need saliva to help it sense the taste. The tongue also assisting in speech