Tastebuds detect flavors.

Meaning: This means that our tastebuds help us to identify the different tastes in our food. It's like saying, Our tastebuds help us to distinguish between sweet, salty, and other tastes.

Choice of Words: Tastebuds are the tiny structures on our tongues that help us taste food. Detect means to discover or notice something. Flavors are the tastes of food. So, "Tastebuds detect flavors" tells us that our tastebuds help us to taste the different flavors in our food.

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Taste buds sense flavors.

Meaning: This means that your tongue can tell the difference between different tastes, like sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

Choice of Words: Taste buds are tiny little bumps on your tongue that can sense different flavors. Sense means to notice or feel something. Flavors are the different tastes that you can sense, like sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

Your tongue can taste different flavors.

Meaning: This means that your tongue can tell the difference between different tastes, like sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

Choice of Words: Your tongue is the muscle in your mouth that you use to talk and eat. Can means that you are able to do something. Taste means to sense a flavor with your tongue. Different flavors are the different tastes that you can sense, like sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

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