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You need saliva to taste food
You produce about a liter of saliva per day. Over the course of a lifetime, that's enough to fill two large swimming pools! So what are taste buds for? They do taste the food—once the food has been broken down into a form that the chemoreceptors in the taste buds of your tongue are able to recognize. Liquid is required for the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., and though water would technically work too, saliva contains enzymes that act on the food you eat in order to not only begin the digestion process, but also to make it so your taste buds can taste it.
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