Did you know that 1 in 4 people suffer from hearing loss? It's a natural progression as we age to suffer from hearing loss and the severity can vary from person to person. At Beltone, we believe in helping the world hear better. Our goal is to help our customers and patients track and protect their hearing.
Salty and sweet senses, like sugar, are mostly tasted at the tip of the tongue. Bitter tastes, like coffee, are sensed at the back of the tongue. Sour tastes, like lemon juice, are sensed at the sides of the tongue, at the middle and toward the front. The average person has about 10,000 taste buds. Theyâre replaced about every two weeks. But as you get older, some of those taste cells donât get replaced. Your grandma or grandpa, for example, may only have about 5,000 working taste buds.
Both your sense of smell and sense of taste detect chemicals. Your tongue is covered with about 10,000 taste buds, which detect five different kinds of tastes: salty, bitter, sweet, sour and umami. Umami, discovered by the Japanese, means delicious in that language. Umami taste buds detect savory flavors. You also have some taste buds on the roof of your mouth and inner surface of your cheeks. The chemical receptors involved in your sense of smell are located in a postage stamp-sized patch of nerve cells called the olfactory tract located at the roof of each nasal cavity.