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SAliva is a 6-7 on the pH scale you shold add that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.3.180.218 (talk) 02:37, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone not find a better picture that actually relates saliva to the human body, rather than some bubbly puddle of muck on the sidewalk? 174.99.62.175 (talk) 21:15, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In the first paragraph of the article, it states water makes up 99% of saliva, but in the Contents section it claims that figure is 98%. Can someone clarify this?

81.23.49.215 (talk) 19:06, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What part of the content of saliva emulsifies or digests fats, and which (emulsification/enzymatic digestion) does it do? I know that if I spit onto my fingers after eating oily foods like potato chips, I can wash them clean with water as if I had used soap. ~GMH 18:40, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Response:

Saliva contains a lipase (an enzyme that digests fats) named lingual lipase. Although fat digestion is minimal in the mouth because the fat is not yet emulsified. Emulsification first occurs in the duodenum of the small intestine

Note: no Category yet... --katpatuka 08:29, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One part of the article currently says: "From Encyclopædia Britannica School Edition." Is this a paraphrase of something from Britannica? If it's a direct quote, is it a legal one? --Elysdir 23:28, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does saliva have calories??(Extra credit project) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.171.111 (talk) 22:53, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was informed by my ENT attending that the average human produces a liter of saliva. Is there a source for the 700mL quantity?

It seems plausible to me that if the average human produces 1000mL, that -millions- of people would be producing in the 700mL range. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.122.208.51 (talk) 17:06, 29 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

The article flatly contradicts itself in two consecutive sentences. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1997-03/856841521.An.r.html talks about the subject a little, but does not give an exact amount in a proper scientific fashion. Anyone want to fix it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.2.17.193 (talk) 13:10, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To quote: In animals, saliva is produced in and secreted from the salivary glands. It is a fluid containing:

What Non-Animal produces Saliva? Do plants also produce saliva? If so is it still called Saliva? i dont think so maaanhink I heard that some insects produce saliva, but I'm not sure, and I'm having a hard time verifying that. Maybe you could help me check into that. --Kevin 22:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See this section of the article on mosquitoes, for example. FJPB 16:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is just being clear that the scope of this article is restricted to animals precisely because only animals produce saliva. Would you rather have a sentence that says 'Only animals produce saliva because only animals produce a substance that meet the criteria below which are clearly oriented around determining which substances produced by animals are saliva?' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.3.130 (talk) 15:36, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is the scientific name or term for Saliva..I must know for a big science project!

What about kisses or sex???, it plays a very important role....

What about diseases transmitted through Saliva?

I've added a bit about swift saliva, which doesn't sit all that easily with the primarily human focus of this article, but I don't know where else it can go. Jimfbleak 08:23, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

when I look up drivel it comes up saliva not mentaioning drivel can be used as another name for saliva Drivel also means nonsense but also no reference to this' —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marinalikas (talk • contribs) 23:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC) [reply]

I was under the impression that an important function of saliva is its buffering capacity. Could this be added to the article? Mba123 (talk) 19:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps there should be additional information on the relatively new concept of genetically modified saliva, which has enthused scientists into solving some of the most ancient problems in dental medicine. [1] ADM (talk) 21:39, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Pixel Eater (talk • contribs) 19:43, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was fascinated that someone thought only one of a total of three salivary glands is producing the saliva. Eeyore tim (talk) 05:53, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone fix the first reference? It's broken for me; the first link just leads to a wiki page about a Med School of Georgia, and the second link leads to a "permission denied" page.

Is there a scientific paper that analyzes and quantifies the components of saliva?

Eleysanne (talk) 15:50, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In the article it is mentioned, that saliva contains ~2-21 mmol/l sodium and ~10-36 mmol/l potassium.

I could not find any sources to back up these values, can anyone help me out here? Where do these come from? Any studies or books on this matter?

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.1.75.113 (talk) 20:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is a large empty field between the end of Section 1.2 Disinfectants and the beginning of Section 1.3 Hormonal Function, at least on my Firefox 22.0 browser. Tried to backspace that empty field out but neither of my two tries would work. Could somebody with experience at editing Wikipedia pages take care of this? THUMOV (talk) 02:36, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! Thanks for bringing it up :) —Epicurus B. ^{(Not my talk page)} 08:22, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Human saliva is 98% water, while the other 0.5% consists of […]"

The other would be 2.0%, not 0.5%. As stated in the article, this makes no sense …

--134.76.63.190 (talk) 21:42, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Any studies on the amount of time needed for mastication in the mouth to complete the 30% conversion of starch to sugar via salivary amylase? 71.203.88.32 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:30, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Statements in this revision are closely related to laryngopharyngeal reflux. Since this is a low importance article adding reference does not seem to be necessary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sachinthonakkara (talk • contribs) 06:42, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I advice that women talk about what they go through during periods & that we should warn other childrens about having sexual intercourse during periods 41.116.211.121 (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I drink period blood, mix it with come and saliva and spit it in others peoples bottoms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by My sweet phlegm in your mouth (talk • contribs) 14:42, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sliva 86.120.171.113 (talk) 13:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There are a lot of questionable stayements made in the section on productions, mainly the differences between saliva produced by the sympathatetic vs. parasympathetic nervous system.

The only citation for this section is for the fact that saliva can be produced by either system and is not working.

It makes questionable claims about the differences between saliva produced by one system vs another.

The whole section reads like it's just one person making their own baseless assertions and inferences.

Like that saliva produced by the parasympathetic system is "thicker and less 'fluid-like'"

Or saliva produced by the sympathetic nervous system is thinner and aids digestion.

The rest reads like they're just making logical inferences. Ie if this happens, then this will happen. Having no citations would seem to support this notion. Along with the odd wording throughout the section.

I removed a line about saliva being "less fluid-like" because it makes no sense and again, has not citation. If there were a citation I would have just changed the wording.

Viscosity is a unique property of a fluid, I would think exhibiting viscosity would be quite a fluid-like behavior.

They're obviously conflating a fluid with a liquid. Which makes the rest of the uncited statements even more questionable, as they seem to be written in the same style, hence by the same person.

I, personally feel this section is just so awash with questionable information lacking citations that it needs an extreme revision. And addition of supporting citations. Or just removal.

I mean, there is definitely some accuracy to some of it. But it's impossible to tell what is accurate and what is not without citations to go off of.

But that's me. Ideally, I would like to have a community discussion involving people who know more on the matter and we can come to a consensus on what to do with this section.

Or maybe it's perfectly fine and can be left alone. Either way, I'd love to discuss it further. VoidHalo (talk) 11:51, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]