Taste buds are a specialized type of sensory cell and are essentially chemoreceptors. They receive information about the chemical structure of things you put in your mouth and send it to your brain which interprets it as a taste, whether bitter, sour, sweet or salty (usually a combination of all 4!).
Their is an average of 10,000 taste buds on your tongue.
The four basic kinds of tastes are: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. The salty/sweet taste buds are located near the front of the tongue; the sour taste buds line the sides of the tongue; and the bitter taste buds are found at the very back of the tongue. The center of the tongue has few taste buds. Babies have more taste buds than older children and adults. Not only do babies have taste buds on the tongue, but also on the sides and roof of the mouth. Taste buds disappear from the sides and roof of the mouth as a baby gets older, leaving taste buds mostly on the tongue.
there are 4 taste buds
taste buds
Bitter taste buds are found at the back of the tongue. Sweet/salty taste buds are in the front of the tongue, sour taste buds are on both sides whereas the middle of the tongue has very few taste buds at all.
the sour taste buds are beside the sweet one.
The human tongue has about 10,000 taste buds.
0. The taste buds are on the tongue.
They are taste buds, so you can taste all the goodness in your food
The front taste buds taste salty and sweet foods. The sides of your tongue taste sour foods. The taste buds on the back of your tongue taste bitter foods.
They are taste buds, so you can taste all the goodness in your food
The human tongue as 2,000 to 8,000 taste buds (on average).