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Research is showing that we can forget just about everything we ever learned about how we taste food. To begin with, we don't taste with our tongues but with our brains. Remember those tongue maps that we all learned about in school? They show that we taste sweet on the tips of our tongues, salt and sour flavors on the sides, and bitter tastes at the back of our tongues. In truth, research shows that we taste each of these flavors all over our tongue. And, no, those little bumps on your tongue are not taste buds. Rather, each of those bumps contains many taste buds. 

 Ref: Discover, 7/00, pp. 70-75, "Tourist is a taste lab." Photo: Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

 

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