Removing the wisdom teeth can improve a person's taste perception by up to ten percent.
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.
Taste-related genes may play a significant role in determining personal food and diet choices, and could also have an impact on cardiometabolic health.
According to researchers, music can influence how much you enjoy the taste of a beer.
Drinking coffee makes your taste buds more sensitive to sweetness, a new study reports.
Researchers say the order in which your senses interact with food items impacts how much you enjoy your meal.
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.
Sensitivity to bitter taste is not only shaped by taste genes, but also how much mRNA a person's cells make, a new study suggests.
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.
Changes in taste perception can for years following chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments for cancer, a new study reports. Cancer survivors reported less sensitivity to bitter, sweet, and salty tastes compared to those who never received a cancer diagnosis. Taste buds on the tip of the tongue are most affected.
Picky eating in children may not be a result of tricky behavior, it could actually be down to genetics. Researchers identify two genes associated with picky eating.
A new virtual reality study reveals people's perception of taste can be altered by what they experience in their surroundings.
