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Why Food Is so Tasty?

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Explain the role of bump-like structures in sensing different tastes.

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Surface of the tongue is covered with special bump-like structures called papillae.

They contain taste buds.

Taste buds help us to taste anything that we eat.

Patterns on papillae are unique to everyone.

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