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Taste buds

I've been musing over this for a few months. I only mention it because I think that I'm right.(insert giggle) As you know I had a baby about 21 months ago, so naturally I did a lot of reading about babies. Did you know that a baby has around 10,000 taste buds. 10,000!!!! They aren't even all on the tongue they have them on the sides of their mouth the rough and the back of the mouth. Just another interesting fact about babies-they can distinguish tastes in the amniotic fluid while they are in the womb. Pretty amazing! As they get older the taste buds disappear. I've been thinking about what we say about our taste becoming more sophisticated as we get older. I actually think that we aren't becoming better food tasters, but our taste buds are disappearing hence we are more likely to eat food that we didn't like the taste of before. So I might not even really like broccoli, but my taste buds are disappearing, so now I can tolerate it?

Comments

jaredandgina said…
So is that why babies love disgusting baby food, really it is super yummy but we have just lost our taste buds so we can't taste the deliciousness!!
DottieLou said…
wow wonder if someday I might like mayo....... somehow I doubt it
Unknown said…
That's WAY interesting. Now I know why older people tend to put a ton of salt or hot sauce on their food - they have less taste buds!
I love that you are into reading interesting facts... as you know we are nerdy like that too. :)
Tina said…
Lol. I got on here hoping to read about New York but instead re read about taste buds. :) I love this random post!

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