Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a ...

We’ve been programmed to crave sweet, salty, and fatty foods since childhood. Just think about it. What tastes dominated your favorite snacks growing up? Probably not bitterness. That sharp, sometimes ...

Brad Spakowitz is a man of good taste. He moves on from talking about bones in 3 Brilliant Minutes to talking about taste ...

A small proof-of-concept study has found evidence that semaglutide can improve people's taste sensitivity, particularly to sweetness. Reading time 3 minutes Semaglutide, the active ingredient in ...

Taste buds are specialised sensory organs that facilitate the detection of chemical stimuli, ultimately guiding dietary preferences and enabling protective reflexes. Composed of distinct cell types – ...

Your brain has a built-in mechanism designed to prevent you from eating too much of any single food, but modern eating habits have found ways to outsmart this ancient protection system. The result is ...