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

The team found that participants who took semaglutide had improved taste sensitivity along with changes to their taste bud gene expression and brain activity after eating something sweet.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2024

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