Crowdsourcing Helps Researchers To Challenge Supertaster Hypothesis

Can you predict how sensitive your sense of taste is by sticking your tongue out and counting the bumps? A long-standing hypothesis says this is so. But a little crowdsourcing of science - what used to be called doing a study - disproved that idea that "supertasters" owe their special sensitivity to bitter tastes to an usually high density of taste buds on their tongue, according to a paper in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. read more

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