| Show childrens children taste keener there are tiny areas on the tongue known as taste buds which are linked with the brain by special nerves these nerves are stimulated when we eat and drink and they convey to the brain sensations which give rise to the sense of taste A young child has over of these taste buds on his tongue but as his age increases a proportion of the taste buds cease to be sensitive after the age of 20 no more than a hundred are active because a child has three times as many taste buds as an adult his sense of taste is three times as keen that is why sweets fruits fruit and so on appeal to him it is also the reason why children dislike most medicines they are three times as unpleasant to them as they are to adults |
