There Is No Taste Map On Your Tongue
According to the University of Florida, professor Steven D. Munger, that’s just mumbo jumbo. It all started when a German scientist’s findings got published in a paper in 1901. His study included a graph that misrepresented his research. The graph kind of made it seem like the human tongue had its own “taste map” and people took it literally, so for years, everyone believed this to be true. But the receptors that can detect salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and umami are distributed all around your tongue.
