There are five basic tastes the tongue can recognise, and for each of them there is a set of receptors that respond to this taste alone, like a set of locks that are opened by specific keys.

Meiji University scientist has found a way to reproduce taste, just as we’ve long been able to do for sight and sound. The human tongue has separate receptors for detecting five basic tastes ...

Best known as the tongue-tingling punch behind salty licorice, this sharp taste might just deserve a spot among the basic five. Taste is a type of chemical sensing picked up by special receptors ...

One compound discovered during the study, oligoporin D, stimulated the bitter taste receptor on the tongue, called TAS2R46, even at the lowest concentrations. Just a gram of oligoporin D dissolved ...

These sensations are detected by taste buds ... there are specific receptors on the tongue responsible for detecting it? This is the question Emily Liman from USC Dornsife College of Letters ...