Body & Brain

How Your Tongue Tastes

Name: How Your Tongue Tastes
Duration: 78 s
Description: Five tastes, not four — and the tongue map is a myth. Most of 'taste' is actually smell.

Five tastes, not four — and the tongue map is a myth. Most of 'taste' is actually smell.

Stick out your tongue. See the tiny bumps? Each one is a SENSOR. About 10,000 of them. They figure out — tasty? gross? poisonous? — in milliseconds.

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Taste BudsUmamiSmell-FlavorReceptors