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Your tongue can taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savoury.

Your tongue can taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savoury.

These are the five basic tastes. Every food is a mix of them in different amounts.

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Sweet things like sugar and honey make many people smile. Sweet things like sugar and honey make many people smile. Lemons taste sour and can make your face scrunch up. Lemons taste sour and can make your face scrunch up. Spicy food is not really a taste — it is a warm, tingly feeling in your mouth. Spicy food is not really a taste — it is a warm, tingly feeling in your mouth. Your sense of smell helps you taste your food better. Your sense of smell helps you taste your food better. Your tongue is covered in thousands of tiny taste buds! Your tongue is covered in thousands of tiny taste buds!