“I told her it was politically incorrect.” Swab blue food colouring on the front of your tongue. This allows you to see the fungiform papillae (they don’t stain as well as the rest of the ...

To find what made them special, Bartoshuk zeroed in on the tongue's anatomy. She found that people have different numbers of fungiform papillae, with tongue topography ranging from, say ...

Transient lingual papillitis (TLP), or "lie bumps," is a common inflammatory condition that affects the fungiform papillae— the tiny bumps on your tongue's surface that contain taste buds.

You have small pink bumps on the tip of your tongue, which are fungiform papillae – these house taste buds”, explains Dr Qian Yang, assistant professor at University of Nottingham. Qian has ...