Thanks to our taste buds, we can enjoy sweet treats such as the Shamrock Shake at McDonald’s when they hit our tongue. While ...

Miracle berries themselves don’t taste particularly sweet and are actually slightly tart. But eating them alters the way our taste buds work, turning sour or acidic flavors into a sweet ...

Managing diabetes requires careful attention to sugar intake, but this doesn't mean eliminating all sweet flavors from your ...

New research suggests that losing your sense of taste, especially for salty and sour foods, could be linked to early death in ...

IN an attempt to identify the feature common to various and seemingly unrelated compounds which taste sweet, we suggested 1 that the saporous unit of all sweet tasting compounds was a bifunctional ...

Did you ever take a swig of aspartame-sweetened diet soda and have it taste nasty? Sour, metallic, and vile, but not sweet.

Scientists have discovered that fruit fly larvae can actually "taste" food texture, thanks to specialized neurons in their ...