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Chemicals affect the taste sensation communicated to your brain, from sweetness through to sourness.

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Where are sensory receptors that are sensitive to chemicals?

taste buds and nose


How is taste detected?

Taste is detected through taste buds, which are small sensory organs located on the tongue and other parts of the mouth. Taste buds contain taste receptor cells that respond to different chemicals in food, signaling the brain to interpret the taste as sweet, salty, sour, bitter, or umami.


Where sensory receptors are found that are sensitive to Chemicals?

taste buds and nose


Is sour taste a physical or chemical reaction?

Sour taste is a result of a chemical property. Certain chemicals - acids in particular - produce a sour taste when they come in contact with the appropriate taste buds. The chemical interaction of those chemicals with the taste buds yeilds a stimulus of those taste buds that the brain interprets as "sour".


What is a taste bud made of?

taste buds are made up of taste cells that sense the chemicals in food and send taste signals to the nerves that carry them to the brain.


How many taste buds do lobsters have?

Lobsters do not have taste buds as humans do. Instead, they have sensory hairs on their legs and feet that help them detect chemicals in the water to find food.


Is taste an acid or a bases?

acid


Where are you're taste buds?

the sour taste buds are beside the sweet one.


Do your taste buds taste mayones?

Yes your taste buds can taste mayonnaise, unless all of your taste buds are dead, than you cant taste anything.


How many taste buds are on a humans lips?

There are no taste buds specifically on the lips. Taste buds are located on the tongue, soft palate, and throat. Lips have touch receptors, not taste buds.


Are there taste buds in your nose?

No, there are no taste buds in your nose.


Do Snakes have taste buds?

Instead of taste buds, snakes have a set of small openings on the roof of their mouths that have olfactory nerve endings, where a snake can smell-taste a prey animal or another snake or lizard. The ends of the forked tongue fit into grooves of the Jaconbson's Organ which is where the scent particles are processed.