While each person’s taste bud count varies, humans tend to have between 2,000 and 5,000. Each taste receptor is specialized to detect one of five flavor types: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, or umami.

Mammals detect the nutrient content, palatability and potential toxicity of food through taste buds that are present mainly in the tongue. In this Review, Roper and Chaudhari discuss the taste bud ...

Professor Tim Jacob, an expert in smell and taste research at Cardiff University, said conclusive evidence was still needed to say that the CD36 receptor was a true taste bud for fat in the same way ...

The human tongue contains more than 2,000 taste buds, which can distinguish between the five main tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami. However, understanding the relationship between ...

A diagram of a taste bud, indicating different types of cells and the sensory nerve. Julia Kuhl and Monica Dus , CC BY-NC-ND For instance, when sugar binds to the sweet receptor, it signals sweetness.

You're born with roughly 9,000 taste buds, and they're very good at regenerating — which is why you can recover the ability to taste just days after burning your tongue. But that changes as we age.

Taste Buds Affect Drinking. November 15, 2004 / 12:26 PM EST / WebMD People with super-sensitive taste buds may be less likely to overindulge in alcohol, according to a new study.