How Taste Buds and Your Nose Work Together

The video explains how taste buds and the nose work together to help us perceive flavors. Taste buds, located on the tongue, detect sweet, salty, sour, and bitter tastes through microscopic hairs called microvilli. An average person has about 10,000 taste buds, which decrease with age and smoking. The nose, with its olfactory receptors, plays a crucial role in flavor perception by detecting food-related chemicals. When the nose is blocked, such as during a cold, flavor perception is diminished.

What are taste buds and where are they located?

How do taste buds send messages to the brain?

What happens to taste buds as a person ages?

Explain the role of the nose in tasting food.

Why might food taste different when you have a cold?