Although sweet, bitter and umami (monosodium glutamate) tastes are different, researchers are finding that information about each of these tastes is transmitted from the various taste receptors via a ...

Although sweet, bitter and umami tastes are different, researchers are finding that information about each of these tastes is transmitted from the various taste receptors via a common intracellular ...

Many patients undergoing chemotherapy experience severe taste disruptions that make eating a challenge at a time when maintaining good nutrition is extremely important. Because the type of ...

There is no life form known between bacteria and mammals that would neglect to check its intake of matter by chemoreceptive scrutiny. A human baby, only a few days old, already can distinguish sweet ...

Sour-sensing taste cells also help us detect, or taste, water, new research shows. New research from Caltech shows that sour-sensing taste cells play an important role in detecting water on the tongue ...

“You don’t know what you’re missing till it’s gone” is a truism that certainly applies to taste. It took a pandemic for taste to get attention. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

PHILADELPHIA (February 11, 2016) - Public health efforts to reduce dietary sodium intake have been hindered by an incomplete understanding of the complex process by which humans and other mammals ...

Neuroscientists have found a pathway in the brain where taste and pain intersect in a new study that originally was designed to look at the intersection of taste and food temperature. This study was ...

Duke University Medical System researchers have reached a step closer to developing potential new smoking-cessation products by discovering that there are differing taste pathways for nicotine. "We ...

Understanding the biological mechanisms responsible for detecting the salty taste will help create solutions to combat the health problems caused by overconsumption of salt, a study has determined. An ...