Researchers say the order in which your senses interact with food items impacts how much you enjoy your meal. Read More
Study reveals how lipids interact with grape tannins, masking the unfavorable taste of certain wine compounds and altering taste perception. Read More
Both the orthonasal and retronasal routes, in addition to our taste buds, shape our taste perception of foods. Read More
Ethnicity may play a role in the perception of bitter tastes, a new study reports. Researchers say this could be related to anatomical differences on the surface of the tongue. Read More
Study reveals the map of neural responses that mediate taste perception does not involve a specific, specialized group of neurons, but overlapping and spatially distributed neural populations. Read More
The sense of taste in female mosquitoes is specially tuned to detect at least four different substances in blood. Read More
Drinking coffee makes your taste buds more sensitive to sweetness, a new study reports. Read More
Taste perception appears to be controlled by dopamine in fruit fly models. Tracing the neural pathway, researchers found the same pathways were associated with controlling learning and memory. The network also appears to enhance taste sensations. Researchers also discovered eating lots of sugar suppresses sweet taste perception. Read More
High-fat diets produce blunted, more prevalent responses to taste in the brain and weaken the association of taste responses with ingestive behaviors. Read More
Whether you stand up to eat or sit for dinner, your posture influences how much you enjoy your meal. Standing to eat mutes taste perception and reduces sensory sensitivity, resulting in a decreased enjoyment of food. Read More
SatB2PBN-expressing neurons in the parabrachial nucleus play a key role in processing and encoding sweet tastes. The SatB2PBN neurons relay sweet taste signals from the gustatory thalamus to the cortex in mouse models. Read More
Genes related to the psychoactive properties of sweet and bitter beverages, and not variations in our taste genes, may explain why some people prefer sodas over coffee, and vice-versa. Read More
