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प्रश्न
If someone were to put a few seeds of saunf (aniseed) on your tongue, would you be able to tell with your eyes closed? How?
उत्तर
Yes, we can recognise something by taste and smell also.
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Try this together in class:
Each of you takes a piece of bread or roti or some cooked rice.
Put it in your mouth, chew three to four times and swallow it.
Did the taste change as you chewed it?
Now take another piece or some rice and chew it thirty to thirty-two times.
Was there any change in the taste after chewing so many times?
