Neuroscience
A high-sugar diet decreases ability to sense sweetness in rats
For many people, a high-sugar diet has become almost accidental.
Oct 13, 2022
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Medical research
The taste for specialty foods is in our genes, study shows
The reasons why people love certain foods and turn their noses up at others, has to do with more than their cultures or even their taste buds… their genes play a significant role too, a new study reveals.
Aug 17, 2022
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Medications
COVID affected taste and 'Paxlovid mouth' sounds disgusting: What causes dysgeusia?
Loss or alteration of taste (dysgeusia) is a common symptom of COVID. It's also a side effect of several illnesses and medications, including Paxlovid, the new antiviral medication to treat COVID infection.
May 24, 2022
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Cardiology
Taste buds can adapt to low salt diet
A taste adaptation intervention lowers salt intake and increases enjoyment of a sodium restricted diet in patients with hypertension, according to a small study presented at ACNAP-EuroHeartCare Congress 2022, a scientific ...
May 23, 2022
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Genetics
Promising gene target for specific language impairment
A study from the University of Kansas recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Brain Sciences identifies a new gene target related to specific language impairment (SLI).
Mar 15, 2022
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Neuroscience
Your gut senses the difference between real sugar and artificial sweetener
Your taste buds may or may not be able to tell real sugar from a sugar substitute like Splenda, but there are cells in your intestines that can and do distinguish between the two sweet solutions. And they can communicate ...
Jan 13, 2022
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Health
What's the difference between sugar, other natural sweeteners and artificial sweeteners?
A quick walk down the drink aisle of any corner store reveals the incredible ingenuity of food scientists in search of sweet flavors. In some drinks you'll find sugar. A diet soda might have an artificial or natural low-calorie ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Medical research
Novel sugar detector system in the human mouth has implications for designing tastier, healthier beverages and foods
Most everyone understands that a major role of our sense of taste is to inform us when sugar is present in foods and beverages by eliciting sweetness on our tongues. A study led by the Monell Chemical Senses Center, published ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Neuroscience
Fruit fly study reveals function of taste neurons
What can the fruit fly teach us about taste and how chemicals cause our taste buds to recognize sweet, sour, bitter, umami, and salty tastes? Quite a lot, according to University of California, Riverside, researchers who ...
Jul 27, 2021
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Health
Pulling wisdom teeth can improve long-term taste function
Patients who had their wisdom teeth extracted had improved tasting abilities decades after having the surgery, a new Penn Medicine study published in the journal Chemical Senses found. The findings challenge the notion that ...
Jun 29, 2021
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