answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

Substances can be tasted only when they are in water solutions, and if a substance is not in solution when taken into the mouth, it must be dissolved in saliva before it can be detected by the taste buds

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

Yes.

In order for substances to react with taste receptors in the tongue, the must be dissolved in the saliva.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

This allows the fluid to run down the sides of the tongue papilla, where the taste buds are located.

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Must substances be in solution for us to taste it?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

What does conductivity tell us about the nature of chemical substances?

The chemical substance must form ions in solution if it is conductive. Ions are required for charge to flow through a solution.


Are most substances around us pure substances ao mixture?

There are very few pure substances around us. Most substances are mixtures, or compounds.


What receptor allows us to detect chemical substances in the air and in food and water?

Chemoreceptors. Detect taste in mouth; smell in nose; and chemicals such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, and glucose in body fluids.


What is the name of the cells that help us taste?

taste buds


A pure substance is either a compound or?

The components of a pure substance can be either molecules or atoms.


Why is chocolate so good?

because they use so much sugar and they put other cemicals to make it so good for our taste buds to exploede but the cemicals does not kill us so dont worry.


How do you remove glue residue from old lace from wedding gown?

First you must tell us what "glue " is. There are hundreds of different substances with hundreds of different ways to remove them.


What is important for us to taste food?

to know that the food taste nice or bad.


How do insect taste their food?

they have taste buds, just like us humans.


What sense is your sense of taste?

Your sense of taste is one of the 5 human senes. It allows us to know- through the taste buds on our tongue- what things.. well, taste like. It lets us determine it's flavor.


What is a taste bug?

It is bud, not bug. Tiny organs on our tongues that allow us to taste.


What are controlled substances?

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES are man made drugs that cause us to alter brain activity.