ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Human taste can be distilled down to the basic 5 taste qualities of sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami or savory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Taste buds are sensory organs that are found on your tongue and allow you to experience tastes that are sweet, salty, sour, and bitter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Scientists now believe that all taste buds can detect the basic tastes: salt, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami (a taste in protein-rich foods).

Detailed explanation-4: -There are three types of taste buds papillae[1][2][3]: Fungiform taste buds papillae: They are mushroom-shaped and located in the anterior two-thirds of the tongue. Circumvallate taste buds papillae: They are inverted V-shaped, larger and more complex, and are located in the posterior one-third of the tongue.

Detailed explanation-5: -5 basic tastes-sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami-are messages that tell us something about what we put into our mouth, so we can decide whether it should be eaten.