Question

Collect a few food items having different kinds of taste. Play a game with your friends like Jhumpa and Jhoolan did. Tell your friend to taste the food and ask–

• How did it taste? What was the food item?
• On which part of the tongue could you get the most taste – in front, at the back, on the left or right side of the tongue?
• Which taste could be made out on which part of the tongue? Mark these parts on the

• One at a time put some things to eat in other parts of your mouth – under the tongue, on the lips, on the roof of the mouth. Did you get any taste there?

Answer 1

• Disclaimer: Thepurpose of this question is to make the students participate in day-to-day activities, based upon which they can make logical deductions. Keeping the importance of this process of observation in mind, the answer to this question has not been provided.
• Disclaimer: The purpose of this question is to make the students participate in day-to-day activities, based upon which they can make logical deductions. Considering the sustenance of this process of participation the answer to this question has not been provided.

• Our tongue is capable of recognising four basic kinds of tastes. These are sweet, salty, sour and bitter.

  The following table lists the tastes and the regions of the tongue showing these tastes.

Taste	Region of the tongue
Front	Sweet
Side	Sour and salty
Back	Bitter

The following figure shows a tongue marked with different taste regions.

• Portion of mouth under the tongue, on the lips, and hard parts such as the roof of the mouth and teeth do not sense any kind of taste as they do not have any taste bud.