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From Tasting to Digesting — Syllabus
Gujarat Board · Class 5 · Environment - Looking Around
What From Tasting to Digesting covers in Gujarat Board Class 5 Environment - Looking Around: 4 topics, for the 2026-27 session.
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4 Topics · Gujarat Board Class 5 Environment - Looking Around · 2026-27
Topics in From Tasting to Digesting
1
Our Sense of Taste
- Our tongue helps us taste food. It can detect different kinds of tastes.
- The main tastes we can identify are: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and spicy.
- Different parts of the tongue are more sensitive to different tastes — the tip usually feels sweet, the sides feel sour and salty, and the back feels bitter.
2
Role of Smell in Tasting
- Our nose and tongue work together to help us identify food.
- Smell helps us recognise food even before we put it in our mouth — for example, Hency recognised fried fish by its smell.
- When your nose is blocked (during a cold), food seems tasteless even if nothing is wrong with your tongue.
3
Chewing and the Start of Digestion
- Digestion begins in the mouth — this is a very important fact.
- When we chew food, our teeth break it into smaller pieces, making it easier to digest.
- Saliva mixes with the food while we chew. Saliva has special juices that start breaking down the food.
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Journey of Food – From Mouth to Stomach
- After we chew and swallow food, it travels through our body.
- The path of food: Mouth → Food pipe (Oesophagus) → Stomach → Small intestine → Large intestine → Waste out of the body.
- The stomach churns the food and mixes it with digestive juices to break it down further.
Key Concepts
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Key topics in From Tasting to Digesting include Our Sense of Taste, Role of Smell in Tasting, Chewing and the Start of Digestion, Journey of Food – From Mouth to Stomach. Study these first, then practise questions on each for Class 5 exams.
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