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·September 22, 2026·5 min read

AI Decodes the Taste of Bitterness

Researchers combine protein language models and neural networks to accurately predict and design bitter-tasting peptides from scratch.

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·February 28, 2025·5 min read

New Tech Lets You Taste Digital Food

Scientists have developed e-Taste, a novel technology that digitally replicates taste in virtual environments. Using chemical sensors and wireless dispensers, the system captures and transmits taste data remotely, enabling users to experience sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami flavors.

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·October 9, 2024·8 min read

Electronic Tongue Uses AI to Detect Differences in Liquids

Researchers have developed an AI-powered "electronic tongue" capable of distinguishing subtle differences in liquids, such as milk freshness, soda types, and coffee blends. By analyzing sensor data through a neural network, the device achieved over 95% accuracy in identifying liquid quality, authenticity, and potential safety issues. Interestingly, when the AI was allowed to select its own analysis parameters, it outperformed human-defined settings, showing how it holistically assessed subtle data.

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·December 1, 2023·5 min read

Taste-Driven AI Algorithms Enhance Wine Selections

Wine apps like Vivino and Hello Vino are utilizing AI algorithms to help wine enthusiasts select the perfect bottle. Researchers have taken it a step further by incorporating people's flavor impressions into the algorithms.

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·November 27, 2023·4 min read

Beyond Processed Foods: New Insights into What Drives Our Food Choices

A new study challenges prevailing assumptions about food preferences, particularly regarding ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Engaging 224 adults, the study analyzed responses to images of 52 familiar foods, assessing factors like energy density, processing level, and carbohydrate-to-fat ratio.

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·November 24, 2023·6 min read

Taste, Not Stomach, Regulates Eating Habits

A new study challenges the traditional understanding of appetite control. The research reveals that our sense of taste, rather than signals from the stomach, plays a critical role in regulating how much we eat.

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·October 5, 2023·7 min read

A New Flavor Frontier: Is Ammonium Our Sixth Basic Taste?

The tongue’s response to ammonium chloride, a component in some candies, may indicate a sixth basic taste. The study illuminated that OTOP1, a protein receptor that signals sour taste, also responds notably to ammonium chloride.

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·October 4, 2023·7 min read

Savoring Bytes: New AI Understands Our Tasty Desires

Researchers engineered an electronic "tongue" that potentially lays a framework for developing artificial intelligence (AI) with emotional intelligence, particularly related to taste and eating habits. This initiative explores the intersection of physiological and psychological factors that determine eating preferences and behaviors in humans, seeking to mimic them in AI systems.

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·August 24, 2023·5 min read

The Bitter Truth: Illness, Inflammation, and the Genetic Code of Taste

A new study delves into the relationship between taste perception and immune function, focusing on the bitter taste experienced during illness. The study identified that inflammation elevates aversion to bitter tastes, a change stemming from the taste buds.

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·March 26, 2023·4 min read

How Salt Can Taste Sweet

Researchers have identified new mechanisms of taste perception. The study reports chloride ion channels bind to sweet taste receptors to evoke taste sensation.

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·September 22, 2022·5 min read

First Direct Evidence That Babies React to Taste and Smell in the Womb

Using ultrasound, researchers captured the facial expressions of developing fetuses in response to the taste of foods their mothers were eating. When exposed to carrots, the fetuses displayed "laughter-face" expressions, and "crying-face" expressions when exposed to kale. The findings shed new light on the development of human taste and olfactory receptors.

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·August 17, 2022·5 min read

The Taste for Specialty Foods Is in Our Genes

Researchers have identified over 400 different genes associated with people's liking of different foods including avocados, chilies, oily fish, and more.

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taste

AI Decodes the Taste of Bitterness

New Tech Lets You Taste Digital Food

Electronic Tongue Uses AI to Detect Differences in Liquids

Taste-Driven AI Algorithms Enhance Wine Selections

Beyond Processed Foods: New Insights into What Drives Our Food Choices

Taste, Not Stomach, Regulates Eating Habits

A New Flavor Frontier: Is Ammonium Our Sixth Basic Taste?

Savoring Bytes: New AI Understands Our Tasty Desires

The Bitter Truth: Illness, Inflammation, and the Genetic Code of Taste

How Salt Can Taste Sweet

First Direct Evidence That Babies React to Taste and Smell in the Womb

The Taste for Specialty Foods Is in Our Genes

Neck Cancer Surgery May Disrupt Brain Drainage and Cognition

Neurodevelopmental Syndrome Linked to Partial Loss of BRSK1

Daily Cannabis Might Make Epilepsy Worse

Bullfrog Brains Produce Their Own Emergency Fuel When Glucose Runs Out

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