Bitter taste receptors, known as type 2 taste receptors (TAS2Rs), play a crucial role in our ability to detect potentially harmful substances in food. These receptors are part of a sophisticated ...
There are five basic tastes the tongue can recognise, and for each of them there is a set of receptors that respond to this taste alone, like a set of locks that are opened by specific keys.
“Taste stimuli are detected by taste receptors in taste buds. You have small pink bumps on the tip of your tongue, which are fungiform papillae – these house taste buds”, explains Dr Qian ...