Taste buds are tiny sensory organs on your tongue that send taste messages to your brain. These organs have nerve endings that have chemical reactions to the food you eat.

Think for a minute about the little bumps on your tongue. You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook — sweet sensors at the tip, salty on either side ...

The tiny sensory organs that cover our tongue allow us to detect five basic tastes: sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami — which is a savory, rich or meaty flavor.

Your tongue is filled with taste buds — as many as 10,000 when you’re born. But those aren’t the little bumps you see.

Tongue scraping can help when “you have a lot of bacteria and film on your tongue,” Kosdon said. “By scraping it off, you can actually taste things better because germs are covering where ...

Back in 1901, a German scientist opined various taste receptors were orderly segregated on your tongue in specific places. Sweet on your tip, salty on the sides, sour behind them, bitter in the back.

The tongue may indeed have a taste for cheesecake, french fries and butter cookies, according to study published Tuesday. In experiments with rodents, French scientists identified a receptor on ...

"You can burn your tongue and damage your taste buds but they usually regenerate in about 10 days," Brown said. Sense of smell also fades after the age of 60 and the two senses are closely ...