Your taste buds recognize four flavors—sweet, sour, salt, and bitter—through receptors that are activated by molecules of sugars, acids, salts, and bases. But your other senses also affect ...

On the walls and grooves of these bumps are thousands of tiny taste buds, too small for the human eye to see. The buds sense the taste of everything they come into contact with. This taste ...

Why is our sense of taste so susceptible to damage and is there a way to still enjoy food when we lose it? There are lots of tactics for boosting flavour in cooking: using pungent ingredients ...

Events, after all, should be all about how you make your guests feel, and taste is a powerful sense for event planners to achieve exactly that. Let’s explore some of the ways taste can be used to help ...

If you grab a bite before your flight, you probably have an idea of what it will taste like. But once you're in the air, your sense of taste isn't the same as it is on the ground. A lot of factors ...

But a new study from my lab at UC San Francisco shows that, in fact, there is another process at work, and it begins as soon ...

Has your sense of taste ever gone dull or disappeared after vaping? Vaper’s tongue could be to blame. The popularity of vaping has skyrocketed over the last couple of years, but still very ...