Julie Mennella, a biologist who studies the sense of taste in ... Stuckey cut up a plain rice cake—one of those Styrofoam-like disks of puffed white rice that are as close to tasteless and ...

With the holidays as our inspiration, let's see if we can't play a few tricks on our taste buds. As we use the WebMD ... are released from the food and pumped up to the olfactory receptors located ...

Now, let's really get in there. Check out all those bumps. Most people think those are our taste buds, but they're actually the papillae, which help grip your food. In the tips of those papillae ...

We’re here at the doctor’s to take a good look at a human tongue, so stay close ... buds can sense all of the tastes. The brain is told how much there is of each taste and builds up an overall ...