Sweet and spicy pairings have existed for centuries and can be found in cuisines around the world. Sugar helps tame capsaicin, the chemical compound that give peppers their signature burning kick.

“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 ...

How SLS hijacks your taste buds To understand why SLS has such a dramatic impact, it helps to look at how taste works at the cellular level. Your tongue is covered in taste buds that contain receptors ...

Taste receptors have been found far beyond the tongue, but do they help perceive taste or work like the ones in our mouths? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Much of what we learned in school about how we taste is wrong. Progress in understanding how taste works is providing insights that may help in the management of obesity, diabetes, and other illnesses ...