👅The Tongue Taste Map is a Total Myth

Remember that colorful diagram in school textbooks, showing how different parts of your tongue detect sweet, salty, sour, and bitter tastes? Turns out, that map is completely wrong. Taste buds are distributed evenly across your tongue, and every section can detect all types of flavors. This falsehood started from a mistranslation of a 1901 German study—and it’s been messing with science classrooms ever since.