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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.

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.

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 ...

Swollen taste buds, also known as inflamed papillae, can cause discomfort and interfere with one's ability to properly taste foods. These microscopic structures on the surface of the tongue sense ...

When there are enough sodium ions outside those key taste bud cells in the mid-tongue area, the ions can enter these cells using the three-part ENaC gateway. This rebalances the sodium concentrations ...

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Sour is slightly different: It is detected by taste bud cells that respond to acidity, researchers recently learned. In the case of salt, scientists understand many details about the low-salt receptor ...

The taste bud cell then sends the “Mmmm, salty!” message onward to the brain. The pleasantly salty taste sensation is detected by sodium-sensing cells within taste buds on the tongue.