However, these are not the same as taste buds. Let us break it down for you. Taste buds are the cells on your tongue that ...

Reviewers are big fans of the dentist-recommended Dr. Tung’s tongue scraper, writing that the tool improved their breath so ...

Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as sourness and umami ...

There are many reasons you can develop bumps on your tongue. Often, these growths are common, not serious, and tend to resolve without intervention. Studies have found over 50% of people ...

In the world of wellness trends, it’s easy to get caught up in the latest fad, but some practices have stood the test of time for a reason. One such tradition is tongue scraping: an ancient Ayurvedic ...

What if you could ask your friend to dip a sensor into the meal, and give you a taste? Remote snacking has moved a bit closer to virtual reality. In a paper on Friday in the journal Science ...

Conversely, if you pinch your nose shut and put a drop of vanilla on your tongue, you won’t taste anything, because vanilla has no taste—only a flavor you can’t detect with a pinched nose.

Top image: e-Taste placed on different parts of the tongue. Bottom image ... sitting in front of a gorgeous ice cream sundae. Using your motion controllers, you eat a large spoonful of this ...

When you get your virtual meal, the e-Taste cooks up the recipe and releases a couple drops of the concoction straight to your tongue. The researchers even showed that the flavors can be released ...