ArticleScientific reports2023
The bacterial species profiles of the lingual and salivary microbiota differ with basic tastes sensitivity in human.
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- Suprathreshold non-volatile flavour perception is associated with multiple species rather than any single species via bacterial metabolism.Journal of oral microbiology · 2026Article
- L-proline supplementation affects non-volatile flavour perception through oral microbiome metabolic pathways.NPJ science of food · 2025Article
- Nitrate supplementation affects taste by changing the oral metabolome and microbiome.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Article
- Novel potential biomarkers for predicting childhood caries via metagenomic analysis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Taste perception is crucial and impairments, which can be linked to pathologies, can lead to eating disorders. It is triggered by taste compounds stimulating receptors located on the tongue. However, the tongue is covered by a film containing saliva and microorganisms suspected to modulate the taste receptor environment. The present study aimed to elucidate the links between taste sensitivity (sweetness, sourness, bitterness, saltiness, umami) and the salivary as well as the tongue microbiota using shotgun metagenomics. 109 bacterial species were correlated with at least one taste. Interestingly, when a species was correlated with at least two tastes, the correlations were unidirectional, indicating a putative global implication. Some Streptococcus, SR1 and Rickenellaceae species correlated with five tastes. When comparing both ecosystems, saliva appears to be a better taste predictor than tongue. This work shows the implication of the oral microbiota in taste and exhibits specificities depending on the ecosystem considered.
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