Stick your tongue out and look at it in the mirror. Have you ever noticed all the tiny bumps that it is covered in?
These are called taste buds and they tell you whether your food is sour, sweet, salty or bitter.
That’s because there are taste buds in different parts of your tongue that can understand all the different tastes. But, that’s not the only job that your tongue does. It also helps us to form words, and is therefore a very important organ in helping us to speak.
Did you know?
Your tongue has around 10,000 taste buds that are sensitive to different tastes.
