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How Your Tongue Tastes the Bubbly: Sour Taste Buds

Posted October 21, 2009 8:33 AM

From USATODAY.com Tech - Top Stories:

Like the fizz of a soft drink? Thank your tongue's sour-sensing taste buds. Nope, it's not the popping bubbles that gives the "taste" of carbonation. Try a swallow inside a pressure chamber — where the bubbles don't burst — and the sensation's the same.

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