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प्रश्न
Has anyone ever told you to hold your nose before taking a medicine? Why do you think they tell you to do this?
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उत्तर
Sense of smell helps in getting the complete taste of food. In the case of medicine, closing the nose will somewhat mask the taste of medicine. This may be the reason why we are told to close our noses while taking medicine.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Collect a few food items having different kinds of tastes. Play a game with your friends as Jhumpa and Jhoolan did. Tell your friend to taste the food and ask -
How did it taste? What was the food item?
Use a clean cloth to wipe the front part of your tongue so that it is dry. Put some sugar or jaggery there. Could you taste anything? Why did this happen?
Why don’t you make sounds that describe some tastes?
From your expressions and sounds ask your friends to guess what you might have eaten.
Has anyone at home told you to eat slowly and to chew well so that the food digests properly? Why do you think they say this?
Imagine you are eating something hard like green guava. What kinds of changes take place in it from the time you bite a piece and put it in your mouth to when you swallow it?
Think what does the saliva in our mouth does?
Do you remember that in Class IV you made a solution of sugar and salt? Nitu’s father also made this and gave her. Why do you think this is given to someone who has vomiting and lose motions?
Have you ever tasted glucose? How does it taste? Tell your friends.
Imagine if you had been in place of Dr. Beaumont, what experiments would you have done to find out the secrets of our stomach? Write about your experiments.
Talk with your grandparents or elderly people and find out what they ate and what work they did when they were of your age.
- Now think about yourself – your daily activities and daily diet.
- Are these similar or different from what your grandparents did and ate?
Chew it or chew it well: What’s the difference?
Try this together in class:
Each of you takes a piece of bread or roti or some cooked rice.
Put it in your mouth, chew three to four times and swallow it.
Did the taste change as you chewed it?
Now take another piece or some rice and chew it thirty to thirty-two times.
Was there any change in the taste after chewing so many times?
