As Liman says, “It was basically the Wild West.” At the time, the four established tastes—sweet, sour, salty, and bitter—had just been officially joined by a fifth: savory, or umami.

These cells — which are buried in the taste buds — are the ones that recognize the primary sensory qualities, the five ...

For decades scientists agreed on four basic food tastes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. In recent years, scientists also have agreed on a fifth sense, umami, which is evoked by monosodium glutamate ...

The human tongue has separate receptors for detecting five basic tastes, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. The Taste Display controls varying strengths of electrical current transmitted to ...

For taste sensing by an E-tongue, the five primary or basic taste qualities are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami (savory ...

We find out… We recognise five basic tastes: sweet, bitter, sour, salty and umami (savoury). But we also recognise an enormous range of flavours, as every variety of every ingredient has an ...

There are five main tastes that the tongue can pick out: sweet, sour, savoury, salty and bitter. All five tastes can be detected on every part of the tongue, although the sides are usually more ...

A new technology called e-Taste could allow us to taste virtual beverages, though it's probably still a long way from ...

A VR interface from Ohio can create a digitally transmitted taste in the mouth. e-Taste also analyses and digitizes the taste ...

Both ibuprofen and naproxen potently inhibit hTAS1R2–TAS1R3 receptors that sense sweetness in a dose-dependent manner. The ...