Question

What are taste buds? Name the four different tastes that you respond to?

Answer 1

Taste buds :

1. Taste buds are the sensory organs found on the surface of your tongue.
2. They are involved in communicating the sense of taste to the brain.
3. The adult human tongue contains thousands of taste buds.
4. The four types of papillae containing the taste buds are filiform, fungiform, circumvallate, and foliate.
5. The four types of taste that we respond to are Sour, sweet, salty, and bitter.