Question

• Jhoolan’s mouth started watering when she heard the word imli. When does your mouth water? List five things you like to eat and describe their taste.

• Do you like only one kind of taste or different ones? Why?

• Jhoolan put a few drops of lemon juice in Jhumpa’s mouth. Do you think we can make out the taste with just a few drops?

• If someone were to put a few seeds of saunf (aniseed) on your tongue, would you be able to tell with your eyes closed? How?

• How did Jhumpa make out the fried fish? Can you guess the names of certain things only by their smell, without seeing or tasting them? What are these things?

• Has anyone ever told you to hold your nose before taking a medicine? Why do you think they tell you to do this?

Answer 1

• My mouth waters on seeing, smelling, hearing or even thinking of the food items I like to eat.

Five things that I like to eat and their respective tastes are:

Sl. No.	Food	Taste
1.	Pickle	Sour
2.	Ice cream	Sweet
3.	Potato chips	Salty
4.	Chocolates	Sweet
5.	Banana shake	Sweet

Disclaimer:The second part of the question aims to encourage children to be creative and explore their vocabulary in describing different kinds of tastes. The answer forthe same is based upon a student’s own observation. Hence, it can vary from various students.

• We like different kinds of tastes.

  This is because if we keep eating food with similar taste, we will get bored of that taste very soon. Moreover, to stay healthy we need a diet with proper quantity of all kinds of food that have different tastes.

• Yes, I think we can make out the taste of lemon juice with just a few drops of it. This is because lemon juice is very sour and our tongue has tiny bump-like structures that can recognise the taste of even a few drops of lemon juice.
• We will not be able to judge that it is saunf (aniseed) until we start chewing it. Once we start chewing it, it starts getting mixed with the saliva present in the mouth. We are then able to recognise its sweet taste.

• Jhumpa might have made out the fried fish by its smell.

  There are several other things we can make out using their smell. Few of them are

  (i) Halwa

  (ii) Coffee

  (iii) Jackfruit

  (iv) Orange

  (v)Sambar

  Disclaimer: The second part of the question aims to develop imagination and recognition skills of the students. The answer for the same can vary from one student to another.
• Nose is a sense organ of smell. Holding the nose while taking medicines enables us to take in the medicine without sensing its bad smell. The two senses, smell and taste are closely related. Hence, on blocking the nose we are able to neither smell nor taste the medicine properly.