Talk:Taste receptor

Expansion
Expanded the "taste receptor" page to provide details about general gustation, signal transduction, and each class of taste receptors. This way people looking for an overview on taste (and particularly taste receptors) can use this page rather than a particular receptor page, which may be too specific. Linked out to other Wikipedia articles for clarification of scientific terms. Sources used were generally those found on the pages of specific receptors and/or cited in the "taste receptor" page already. This page was a stub and is now greatly expanded. Kelsiejaness (talk) 02:24, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Fat
The possibility of a fat receptor's existence was presented, and the targets were identified. Primary research to support claims was included. Pjuviler (talk) 10:21, 17 November 2014 (UTC)


 * ‎ Thanks for your additions, however per WP:SCIRS and WP:MEDRS, what are needed are secondary sources (i.e., review articles) not primary sources to support claims. Fortunately there are a number of relevant review articles (see for example, ).  Several proteins have been proposed as fat taste receptors, but as the reviews make clear, the evidence is not definitive.  The Taste_receptor section needs to be written so that it is consistent with the conclusions of the reviews. Boghog (talk) 18:07, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

umami
This article needs reviewing regarding umami.

If this is a taste then it should be in the list of tastes. It is not. 3.1 Savory or glutamates 3.2 Sweet 3.3 Bitter 3.4 Sour 3.5 Salt 3.6 Carbonation 3.7 Fat

If the authors are trying to change the name to Savory then say so. This is problematic because savory refers to other herbs etc and other tastes that are not Umami and Umami is the recognized name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.184.76 (talk) 19:04, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Water
It appears that scientists may have discovered that water does, indeed, have a taste (in that it stimulates taste receptors). https://curiosity.com/topics/what-does-water-taste-like-science-finally-has-an-answer-curiosity/ Nsayer (talk) 18:23, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Vertebrate taste receptors
It seems like this article should specify that it's about vertebrate taste receptors. Ethan Bass (talk)