Make a Comment • Email Link • Send Letter to Editor IPFS News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology The Tongue Map: Tasteless Myth Debunked 8-30-2006 • LiveScience.com The notion that the tongue is mapped into four areas—sweet, sour, salty and bitter—is wrong. There are five basic tastes identified so far, and the entire tongue can sense all of these tastes more or less equally. Watch Streaming Broadcast Live: LRN.fm Watch live shows and archives TV Live Chat Telegram Share this page with your friends on your favorite social network: