The Science of Taste
Have you ever looked at your tongue in a mirror? If so, you have probably noticed that it is bumpy. The bumps on your tongue are called papillae. Each one of the papillae contains hundreds of taste buds. You also have taste buds on the roof of your mouth and on your epiglottis, which is located at the top of your throat. The taste buds send messages to your brain that tell you about its basic flavor-that is, whether you are eating something salty, sweet, bitter, sour, or umami. Umami is hard to describe, but it is most often called a "meaty" or "savory" flavor. Foods with an umami flavor include meat broth, cheese, and soy sauce.
Your mouth and tongue also have receptors that send information about things besides the basic flavors of food. Your mouth has temperature receptor cells that can tell whether a food is piping hot or ice cold. Other receptors give information about the texture of food or how spicy it is.
But just being able to tell whether what you are eating is sour, cold, crunchy, or spicy is not truly tasting the food. For example, orange soda and root beer are both sweet, cold, and bubbly, but they do not taste the same. In order to get the full flavor of your food, you also need to use your sense of smell. The upper part of your nose contains special cells called olfactory receptors. They send messages about what things smell like to your brain. As you chew your food, chemicals quickly travel to the olfactory receptors in your nose. When your brain gets information from both the olfactory receptors and the taste buds, you experience the full flavor of what you are eating.
Question: Which detail is NOT included in the passage?

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In paragraph 1, the author discusses the difficulty of describing the umami flavor but does not mention that it is more difficult to process.
Both the mouth and tongue play a part in sending information to the brain is incorrect because this statement is true. In paragraph 2, it is written that the receptors from the mouth and tongue send information to the brain.
The bumps on one's tongue serve a purpose is incorrect because the statement is true. In the beginning sentences of the text, the author notes that the bumps on the tongue are called papillae, which contain taste buds. As noted later in the text, these taste buds serve the purpose of sending messages to the brain.
The epiglottis contains taste buds is incorrect because the statement is true. In paragraph 1, the author mentions that the epiglottis contains taste buds.