Myth or Fact #2 Tongue is mapped into different areas of tastesteemCreated with Sketch.

in science •  7 years ago 

Tongue- is that part of our body that doesn’t have any bone in it but is tremendously mapped into different areas of taste like no other body part. We always studied that tongue has its own different areas that are responsible for detecting a particular taste. But, it is kind of a misconception. The tongue as a whole works in detecting the taste but it just that some areas that we call as taste detectors are sensitive towards a particular taste. Just because of this fact we say that the tongue is mapped into different areas of taste.
Let’s know more about the map of the tongue. The tongue is majorly mapped to taste Bitter, Sour, Salty and Sweet. These are all the major tastes one tastes in their lifetime.

So, here we see a well mapped tongue with different areas of taste. We can easily detect the parts that is mapped to taste Bitter, Sour, Salty and Sweet.
The back of the tongue is mapped to feel the bitterness of any food which is represented with blue color.
The left and right green color patches are mapped to taste the sour content present in the food items.
The left and right yellow patches are mapped to taste the salty content of the food.
The last area that is represented by purple color is mapped to taste the sweetness of the food.
So, we can say that the tongue is mapped into different areas of taste.

Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

I doubt this is true, and even if it is, so fing what?
I doubt it would really matter, or change our reality, so it's just balderdash mostly..

I think that it is true guys

Hi there ✌🏻 I'm harry and I'm a new steemer! Please follow me back and vote for my first posts) I'm really thankfull to you 😻

Dude I understand you want to gain followers quick but don't copy and past the same comment on everybody post and say your thankful that is not heart felt. This I just a tip some people in the community wil hate on you and maybe even report you. For the record this post from me is not hating it is just a friendly tip from one noob to another .

Did you know their is a Japanese scientists who discovered a sixth taste calles Unami it means savoury taste and tastes stuff like msg!

No but really thanks for the info

I need to know the mouth for a living #dentalstudent

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

This is a myth, all the tongue surface can detect all the flavours with the same sinsitivity. Furthermore, there is a 5th basic flavour called umami, the major ingredient that has this flavour is glutamate.
https://www.livescience.com/7113-tongue-map-tasteless-myth-debunked.html