Down with the globalization of taste! Let's wake up our battalions of taste buds from our gloomy plain which serves as a tongue!

This muscle in the center of our mouth is covered with taste buds that regenerate every 8 to 10 days, they number ten thousand at our birth and decrease in adulthood. Our taste buds decrease all the more as they are little stimulated and they have not been trained enough in due time; yes, taste buds need to be trained hard without even having to stick out the tongue...

Vary the flavor range from the 6th month

It is essential to familiarize children with a varied range of flavors from the 6th month. It is then by regularly having them taste a new food, without forcing them and in different forms, that the child will develop a taste for it.

The food preferences established at 2 years old are largely maintained until at least 20 years old, after that it is more difficult (but not impossible!) to open up to new tastes, disgust taking over.

Taste memorization

So, the taste buds allow us to recognize different tastes, this is explained by the presence of small buds at the base of these: called the taste buds. The foods, thanks to saliva, release molecules that will penetrate the taste pores located at the end of the buds. When we salivate just at the thought of eating a food, it's because our brain has recorded the pleasure it could provide.

The sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami tastes are thus formed in different brain areas which decode and analyze the sensory information transmitted; the more these experiences are extended, the more brain development will be developed.

A large assortment of tastes can minimize the risk of overweight in children and adults. Our natural orientation is towards the sweet and salty while acidic and bitter foods, often less rich in energy, are rarely favored for not having been tasted enough.

In summary, develop your brain with your tongue through new taste experiences!