Explore your tongue. The little bumps on your tongue are your taste buds, and they are what let you learn whether something is salty, spicy, sour, sweet, or bitter when you taste it. There are many different kinds of things that you have probably already tasted. You can taste the food you eat, candy, medicine, lip balm, sweat, and things you drink. You use your sense of taste to learn if you like a new food or flavor. Taste something new today!