Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a sensitive bunch. Taste buds are clusters of tiny sensory cells. They detect ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital used structural biology approaches to gain insight into how sweet taste receptors detect sweeteners. Sweet taste receptors are proteins in taste ...

The modern palate craves maple-matcha-blackberry-thyme-yuzu-miso-caramel. The modern palate craves maple-matcha-blackberry-thyme-yuzu-miso-caramel. Credit...Grant Cornett for The New York Times; Food ...

If the idea of eating fruits and vegetables makes you pull a face because they taste unpleasant to you, you’re not alone - but that aversion could be costing your body some serious health benefits.

Ever eaten while doom-scrolling and realised you barely tasted anything? Or found your favourite pasta strangely bland after a stressful meeting, yet somehow delicious on a relaxed Saturday evening?