taste bud

Example Sentences

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"This is just the beginning of research to create climate resilient fruit and create a fruit that is acceptable to the Indian taste bud."

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2025

You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook — sweet sensors at the tip, salty on either side, sour behind them, bitter in the back.

From New York Times • May 29, 2024

This confirmed their hypothesis that OTOP1 responds to the salt, generating an electrical signal in taste bud cells.

From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023

The grinning purple blob has commonly been interpreted by others as a taste bud.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2023

We've all hit the wall of Thanksgiving leftovers: the flavors of sage, rosemary, and turkey gravy infiltrating every taste bud, the thought of cold, dry turkey haunting your dreams.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2021