“These are fungiform papillae, structures that hold taste buds. If you have a lot of them, you’re probably a supertaster,” she says. It might be a fun party trick to see whether you have a ...

Now I'm supposed to count how many of those bumps, called fungiform papillae, appear inside a circle a quarter-inch in diameter, but I don't need to do that. Obviously, I have fewer than the 30 ...