The tongue is covered in lots of little bumps. On the walls and grooves of these bumps are thousands of tiny taste buds, too small for the human eye to see. The buds sense the taste of everything ...

The tongue-- sorry, the tongue ... Most people think those are our taste buds, but they're actually the papillae, which help grip your food. In the tips of those papillae are where our 10,000 ...

In the mirror I see a smattering of pink bumps—each hiding as many as 15 taste buds apiece—against ... Bartoshuk zeroed in on the tongue's anatomy. She found that people have different numbers ...

Medically reviewed by Brian T. Luong, DMD Your tongue is naturally lumpy, but noticeable bumps on the back of the tongue ...