The tongue and taste

The tongue is the sense organ of taste. It detects different flavours. We can detect flavours thanks to the taste buds on our tongue. We have around 100000 taste buds located on the front and back of our tongue. A few basic tastes can be detected by our buds: salty (fish), sweet (cupcakes), bitter (coffee) and sour (lemon). When you eat something, the saliva in your mouth breaks down the food and the taste buds sense the basic tastes. This message is sent to the brain which then detects the right flavour.

Nevertheless, this is different in aliens. The tongue is the sense organ of touch. Aliens do not really know to touch things, so they do not use this sense organ too much. They can feel different types of touch thanks to the tasmo bisd on their tongue. They can detect soft materials, hard materials or flexible materials. The information captured by receptors in the tasmo bisd travels to the brain through the nerves. The brain receives and interprets this information.