No they only have to be connected to the blood stream and the nerve system.
by eating
Some taste buds are more sensitive than others however flavor comes in varying degrees. Which means something can go from spicy to down right flaming and that brings a taste difference. Also when eating you don't taste only one thing it is mixture of what all your taste buds are tasting.
Sight doesn't affect how your taste buds work, but it DOES change how the brain perceives flavor. The brain registers whatever food you see (for example a cake) and your taste buds are instantly caused to taste "sweet" flavors. If you stared at a cake for a while, then suddenly ate celery, your taste buds would be expecting "sweet", but not get any. This is why someone may drink something and be repulsed, because they expected another flavor.
The five senses are known as sight (vision), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), smell (olfaction), and touch (somatosensation). Each sense corresponds to specific sensory organs: the eyes for sight, ears for hearing, taste buds on the tongue for taste, olfactory receptors in the nose for smell, and skin receptors for touch. These senses work together to help us perceive and interact with the world around us.
Olfaction (smell) and gustation (taste) work together to create our overall perception of flavor. While taste buds on the tongue detect basic tastes like sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami, the sense of smell contributes significantly to our ability to detect more subtle flavors and aromas in food. When we eat, volatile compounds released from the food interact with olfactory receptors in the nasal cavity, enhancing our perception of taste.
by eating
Taste buds are nerves in the tongue that pick up flavors then send them as a signal for your brain to pick up and then you get taste
Chemical reaction
i think they do because the taste buds grow back but do taste buds not work during the night?
Taste buds work because of chemical action on the tongue. Taste buds are made of taste cells; these cells have taste hairs on them which are receptors for taste molecules. These hairs go into a taste pore on the surface of the tongue. Taste cells synapse with sensory nerve fibers, and stimulatory neurotransmitters are released to the brain, and the brain interprets these messages as taste. The taste pore must be flooded for this process to start, so the food molecules must either be moist, or they must be combined with saliva. More specifically, the facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve and the vagus nerve accumulate sensory information from the taste buds, and taste fibers send this information to the solitary nucleus in the medulla oblongata; the information is then taken to nuclei in the hypothalamus, amygdala and the thalamus. The thalamus routes the sensory information to the insula and postcentral gyrus of the cerebrum, and the individual can then become aware of the taste of the food he or she is eating.
Taste buds contain the receptors for taste. They are located around the small structures on the upper surface of the tongue, soft palate, upper esophagus and epiglottis, which are called papillae. There are also taste buds in the lungs. These structures are involved in detecting the five (known) elements of taste perception: salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and savory
The sense of taste is primarily detected by taste buds on the tongue. These taste buds contain receptors that respond to different types of molecules in food, sending signals to the brain via the nervous system. The brain then interprets these signals to create the sensation of various flavors such as sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami.
Because they are a different organism.
You can't taste because your nose is stuffed and your sense of smell greatly contributes to your sense of taste
Some taste buds are more sensitive than others however flavor comes in varying degrees. Which means something can go from spicy to down right flaming and that brings a taste difference. Also when eating you don't taste only one thing it is mixture of what all your taste buds are tasting.
No. They way your brain, taste buds and sense of smell work together determines how you taste something. This is why one person may like fish and others don't....,
Age affects taste because when u r young your taste buds are brand new and work completely. as u age into an old geezer your taste buds dry up and u cant really remember the taste of any thing.