This tastes sugary and nice.
What is Sweet?
A form of communication that is able to express opinions, information, or feelings.
What is Talking or Speaking?
These tongue sensors determine what type of taste our food has.
What are Tastebuds?
This tastes very salty.
What are Pretzels, Chips, French Fries, etc? (any salty food)
The ability to elongate the "R" sound.
What is Rolling Our "R's?"
This tastes like sodium.
What is Salty?
Without these, it'd be difficult to speak or make certain sounds - like the "L" or "F" sound.
What are Teeth?
Once we swallow our food, it goes into this organ to begin digesting.
What is the Stomach?
This tastes very sweet and sugary.
What is Chocolate, Caramel, Candy, Honey, etc? (any sweet food)
The ability to curl the edges of our tongue into a tube-like shape.
What is Rolling Our Tongue?
This tastes non-sweet and unpleasant.
What is Bitter?
Breaking down our food using our teeth and tongue.
What is Chewing?
Food goes through this passageway in the back of the mouth to get to the stomach.
What is the Throat?
This tastes very sour and acidic.
What are Lemons, Expired Milk, Raisins, Tamarinds, Pickles, etc? (any sour food)
The average tongue is about this long. (in inches)
What is 3 Inches Long?
This tastes acidic.
What is Sour?
We use this muscular organ to manipulate food and speak efficiently.
What is the Tongue?
This layer of small bumps creates a rough surface on our tongue.
What is the Papillae?
This tastes very bitter and unpleasant.
What are Bitter Melons, Cranberries, Coffee, Eggplants, Kale, Broccoli, etc? (any bitter food)
We do this to our teeth and it is also important to do this to our tongue as well.
What is Brushing?
This tastes savory and pleasant.
What is Umami?
This is a system used to communicate with others that also understand the system; there are many different systems for this means of communication.
What is Language?
This organ connects the throat to the stomach. After chewing our food, it goes through this passageway, but before getting to our stomach.
What is the Esophagus?
This tastes very savory and pleasant.
What are Meats, Fish, Vegetables, etc? (any umami food)
These fun phrases are difficult to say because they involve many words with the same sounds.
What are Tongue Twisters?