How does the tongue distinguish taste?

There are different taste buds in our tongue. There is sweet at the front, salty at the middle, and bitter and sour all way further to the end of your tongue. So when we eat certain types of food,...

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the previous answer provided by "moonman2" is incorrect. Moonman, your tongue cannot taste a temperature. The tongue however does taste things that are: bitter, salty, sour and sweet.

There are tiny receptor in you tongue called taste buds that pick up the flavor of what you pass on it. Different places of the tongue pick up different types of flavors.

Kind of chewy, unless you boil it for a long time. But seriously.... The tonge tastes with taste buds; the taste buds are nerve endings that respond differently to different chemicals. When there is...