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 ...

“Taste receptor cells sensitive to each tastant are present in taste buds across the tongue, meaning that there is no taste map representing regions of the tongue corresponding to specific ...

I paint my tongue cobalt, swish some water in my mouth and spit into the bathroom sink. In the mirror I see a smattering of pink bumps—each hiding as many as 15 taste buds apiece—against the ...