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You are born with 9,000 taste buds, which work in tandem with your sense of smell as your sense of taste relies primarily on odors. Your sense of smell and taste change as you age. Between the ages of 40 and 50, the number of taste buds decreases, and the rest begin to shrink, losing mass vital to their operation. After age 60, you may begin to lose the ability to distinguish the taste of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter foods. The sense of smell does not begin to fade until after the age of 70; its decrease exacerbates the loss of taste for those affected. The exact cause of these changes is up for debate.
There are only four different types of taste that infants need to develop-sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Talking about taste, it is mostly seen that infants have a liking for sweet food items and dislike items that have a sour taste. The texture of the food also plays a pivotal role in developing the taste. 2  Most of the babies do not like cottage cheese, because of its odd texture. 3  The odor of volatile flavors like cherry, are perceived via the olfactory receptors. 4  This type of odor does not have much impact on children, until they reach the age 5.