A sore throat, loss of taste, and a burning tongue are telltale signs something is wrong. But the culprit might surprise you.

As with taste perception via the tongue, we’re still at quite an early stage in our understanding of how the brain combines different chemical signals into what we experience as flavors.

A team of researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a new graphene-based sensor design ...

While the tip of the tongue is said to pick up on sweet flavors, you can lick a pretzel and taste salt or lick a lemon and taste sour. The tongue diagram that originated in 1901 is far from ...

Such taste receptors aren’t limited to the tongue; they are also found in the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, fat cells, brain, muscle cells, thyroid and lungs.

Scientists have found that the tongue has taste receptors for fat, which might explain why we like fried foods. Conventionally, experts have thought that the tongue detects five tastes - sweet, salty, ...

Because of this, researchers want to make more helpful robot chefs, and scientists from Cambridge have created a robot arm that can taste salt in food accurately.

If you can’t seem to get the taste of onion, garlic or cheese out your mouth after brushing, you might benefit from a tongue scraper. As one of the most flexible muscles in the body, the tongue ...

An electronic tongue that can replicate flavours like cake and fish soup could help recreate food in virtual reality, but can’t yet simulate other things that influence taste, such as smell.

The tongue may indeed have a taste for cheesecake, french fries and butter cookies, according to study. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.