Talk:Taste bud

message: What causes the sensation of hot, or spicy, which can border on pain for some people (like me)?  --zandperl 23:27, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  What causes spicy sensation? 

message: The contradiction has apperantly been removed -- 66.69.239.244 03:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove Contradiction Tag 

message: I think there should be some  mention about the healing process and cycle of taste buds, I'm sure many people look at this page because they scalded their tongue, or otherwise damaged their taste buds.  looking around, I found this:
post
which links to some other good pages
 
on taste buds.
Essentially, the cells are replaced every 1-2 weeks.
Cynorg 21:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree this information would be useful in the article.  Looking up burnt taste buds and came across this...it says that burnt taste buds regenerate within a few months: http://www.ific.org/foodinsight/1999/ja/tastefi499.cfmGiovanni33 (talk) 23:33, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  healing factor? 

message: This page is a wonderful start.  My concern is that it never explains what taste buds actually are.  We are told that they sit on papillae and that they are composed of receptor cells, but the taste buds themselves are neither of these things.  I think this article would be improved if it explained the actual taste bud structure (pore, receptor/support/basal cells, nerve synapses). Alki 19:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added some content from a public domain edition Gray's Anatomy to address these concerns, but if you have any additional (or more up-to-date) information, your contributions would be welcome. --Arcadian 14:25, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More specific definition of "taste bud" 

message: The basic taste article states that there are taste buds specifically designed for certain tastes (maybe not a full endorsement of the Tongue map, but along those lines), whereas this article states that all taste buds can taste all of the basic tastes.  It may be possible that all taste buds taste all flavors, but some are designed to taste certain ones more than other tastes, but if so, this is far from clear.  Is there a definitive answer, or is this something we're still not sure on? --Reverend Loki 22:19, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, per the notice, it wasnt the Taste article that was conflicting this one, but rather the Basic taste article.  If I get a chance, I'll do some editing on that one tonight.  I myself have no expertise on the subject, so from a glance I could not state which one was right over the other, or if they both held some bit of truth.  However, It looks like this article is in the right and the other is incorrect.   Oh, and don't forget to sign your entries on talk pages, Scott5834  --Reverend Loki 22:54, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict with Basic taste article  

message: I changed the article by adding more recent information regarding sensitivity.  The Cell journal article pretty much proved that cells expressing taste receptors do not express them uniformly, nor are they uniformly sensitive to specific tastes.  Some scientists have also suggested that there are in fact locations on the tongue that are more or less sensitive to specific tastes, though this may not be as simplified as the "tongue map" might lead one to believe (also referenced in the article).
Also, the article was not even consistent with the NPR program which is given as an External Link.  In that program, Dr. Scott Herness, though he did say the tongue map was wrong, conceded that "receptors are not distributed evenly across the tongue" and that some wine connoisseurs experience sourness at the sides of the tonge and "that is where the tongue seems most sensitive to sour".Mhsia 20:21, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversy over Sensitivity to Different Tastes and Taste Localization

message: Question: How many taste buds per kind of taste?
:First, dont forget to sign your entries on discussion pages, 202.147.188.219.  You will also probably want to make sure you are logged into your account as well, or if you don't have an account, you can register for one.  Secondly, you realy shouldn't just add questions like this ahead of the ToC of a discussion page - instead, create a subheading at the bottom of the page and ask your question there.  Thirdly - the answer is "all of them".  All taste buds can taste all of the "basic tastes".  Since, per the article, the humon tongue has about 10,000 taste buds, then I suppose the answer is about 10,000. --Reverend Loki 20:16, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsigned Question - moved from top of page 

message: There's no information on what happens when you burn your tongue on hot food?  Or recovery options for that matter.  I did a little outside searching and found the cells in the tongue are always in a state of turnover, so I suppose you will have to wait until they do that before the "burnt tastebud" will disappear as being such an irritant.--68.102.37.191 01:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking up burnt taste buds and came across this...it says that burnt taste buds regenerate within a few months: http://www.ific.org/foodinsight/1999/ja/tastefi499.cfm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Giovanni33 (talk • contribs) 23:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burned Taste Buds 

message: Contrary to popular understanding that different tastes map to different areas of the tongue, taste qualities are found in all areas of the tongue. [1] [2] [3].
The original "tongue map" was based on a mistranslation by Harvard psychologist Edward Boring of a German paper that was written in 1901 [4]. Sensitivity to all tastes occurs across the whole tongue and indeed to other regions of the mouth where there are taste buds (epiglottis, soft palate)[5].
It is known that there are five taste sensations:
    * Sweet, Bitter, and Umami (now sometimes called Savory), which work with a signal through a G-protein coupled receptor.
    * Salty and Sour, which work with ion channels.
Many people think of spicy, chile pepper-laden foods (containing capsaicinoids) as having a distinct and unique taste or "tongue feel." In reality, however, the "spicy" sensation is caused by simultaneous activation of "warm" (moderate heat-sensing) nerves and "pain" (polymodal nociceptor) nerves. These 2 sensations are rarely experienced together in nature, making the human reaction to chiles all the more anomalous (and questionably pleasurable, although Erowid classes these compounds as psychoactives. These two aforementioned types of nerves, responsible for our perception of mild temperature increase and pain/fight/flight intensity, are found all over the human body (including the tongue) and are vastly different from taste buds. This explains the typical spicy food reactions of eye tearing, flushing, and sweating, symptoms rarely produced by other foods.
Any constructive criticism or advice shall be greatly appreciated. Also, there should probably be a credit for the SciAm article, but I don't know whether that goes in references or external links. Thanks in advance for not biting!
The posp 04:27, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location and Sensation of Taste 

message: This article needs help. The very first sentence incorrectly states that the bumps on the tongue are taste buds. The bumps are papillae. The groove around each bump contains taste buds within it. And within those taste buds are the taste receptor cells.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.26.234.233 (talk) 02:06, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong 

message: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/21/human-taste-buds-may-recognize-calcium/
Danielgump (talk) 21:50, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What About Calcium?

message: I believe I have found a hoax. "Some early experimental studies (Kirk and Grills, 1992) showed that subjects who were genetically predisposed to baldness were found to be 78% more likely to experience taste loss sensations in 5 out of 5 taste trials. It was hypothesized that this was due to 'balding' of the tongue." The idea itself is dubious, and there's no record of the "experiment" (and Grills is probably a joke). This was put there by IP address 114.129.157.29 on October 4th 2009. It has gone unnoticed even though there have been multiple edits to correct grammar! I have removed it, but the whole article still really needs cleanup.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Silenceisgod (talk • contribs) 22:24, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Hoax