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the tongue provides saliva so that the food can go down and your teeth break it down.
As far as i know it doesnt,althought your saliva might break it down your teeth do that, you stomach and intestines break down the food and turn it into a liquid and then it..you know.. Hope i helped
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∙ 9y ago
jabulani machebele
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∙ 9y agoTaste buds
Your toungue has 3 different taste buds: bitter, sour and sweet. Depending on the food, it hits one of the 3 tastebuds along with mixing of your saliva creates a particular taste.
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∙ 9y agoTaste buds contain the receptors for taste. They are located around the small structures on the upper surface of the tongue, soft palate, upper esophagus, the cheek, epiglottis, which are called papillae.
These structures are involved in detecting the five (known) elements of taste perception: salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and umami.
A popular myth assigns these different tastes to different regions of the tongue; in reality these tastes can be detected by any area of the tongue. Via small openings in the tongue epithelium, called taste pores, parts of the food dissolved in saliva come into contact with taste receptors.
These are located on top of the taste receptor cells that constitute the taste buds. The taste receptor cells send information detected by clusters of various receptors and ion channels to the gustatory areas of the brain via the seventh, ninth and tenth cranial nerves.
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∙ 12y agoThe tongue is to help you swallow and move your food around. You obviously have your cheeks to keep the food from falling out.
Uwem Inyang
It rolls the food into bolus and guides it into the gullet.
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∙ 12y agoIt moves the food from tooth to tooth and tastes what you are eating.
It uses taste receptors better known as taste buds to identify the different tastes of food
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