Timeline for What is the numb sensation in the mouth caused by some fruits called?

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Oct 20, 2013 at 11:56	history	edited	user49727	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 51 characters in body
Oct 20, 2013 at 11:22	history	edited	user49727	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 410 characters in body
Oct 19, 2013 at 21:51	comment	added	user49727		That's a completely different story! The present context is clearly that of taste related to foods- and hence restricted to taste buds - it has nothing whatsoever to do with touching with finger!
Oct 19, 2013 at 21:46	comment	added	Mitch		If you touch your tongue with your finger, do you taste your finger or feel it? After you lick a stamp, do you feel the flavor or do you taste it? The tactile sense and the chemical (flavor) senses are distinct.
Oct 19, 2013 at 21:37	comment	added	user49727		There is no such thing as numbness and tingling that is distinct from the sole function of taste buds - taste. All impairments in perception including absence of taste (numbness) or what is described here as 'tingling' are simply that - impairment of taste. As Kris explains below it is somewhat related to desensitization of receptors.
Oct 19, 2013 at 21:24	comment	added	Mitch		I think the OP is not asking about -taste- (sweet, salt, etc) but about the tactile sensation. Tingling and numbness are not tastes.
Oct 19, 2013 at 20:08	history	edited	user49727	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 129 characters in body
Oct 19, 2013 at 20:01	comment	added	user49727		Yes - that would strictly come under the term dysgeusia.
Oct 19, 2013 at 19:59	history	edited	user49727	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 287 characters in body
Oct 19, 2013 at 19:55	comment	added	Mitch		Is there a tingling feeling associated with this? Is it caused by eating some kinds of fruit?
Oct 19, 2013 at 19:45	history	answered	user49727	CC BY-SA 3.0