1. Anatomy of the taste system

Taste perception is ensured by specialized cellular structures: taste buds. These are found in the taste buds, whose density is particularly high in the lingual epithelium. Taste buds also exist, but in a diffuse fashion, in other tissues including the soft palate, pharynx, larynx and upper esophagus. At the lingual level, there are three types of taste buds (see figure 1 ). The most numerous are the fungiform papillae, located in the anterior 2/3...