Each of the basic tastes, she explained, is perceived by taste buds in a unique region on the tongue: sweet at the tip, salty and sour at the sides, bitter at the back. She gave the girls Q-tips ...

However, these are not the same as taste buds. Let us break it down for you. Taste buds are the cells on your tongue that ...

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Receptors for each basic taste are packed into our taste buds and these are bundled into papillae – the knobbly bumps that you can see on the tongue. So what are these basic tastes? We all like ...

Now, let's really get in there. Check out all those bumps. 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 ...

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“Taste stimuli are detected by taste receptors in taste buds. You have small pink bumps on the tip of your tongue, which are fungiform papillae – these house taste buds”, explains Dr Qian ...

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