Scientist Debunks Traditional View Of Taste Receptors

M. Scott Herness (Associate Professor of Oral Biology at the College of Dentistry at Ohio State University) debunks what we’ve all been taught about the taste receptors on the tongue. He says that taste buds don’t work the way we’ve been taught all of our lives. In fact, he claims that there’s no such thing as bitter, sweet and sour areas of the tongue.

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