Neuroscience
A small dose of E. coli wall has big impact on the sweet tooth
Putting just a tiny piece of the wall of detoxified E. coli into their gut make mice lose their natural sweet tooth, researchers report.
Apr 19, 2016
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Neuroscience
Team deciphers sugar's siren song
Sugar's sweetness and calorie content combine to give it lethal power to destroy diets, many scientists have assumed. However, new study by Yale University researchers says the brain responds to taste and calorie counts in ...
Jan 25, 2016
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Health
Children's ability to detect sugar varies widely
Everyone knows that children love sweets, but ever wonder why some kids seem to want more sugary food than others? It could be because they need more sugar to get that same sweet taste. According to new research from the ...
Dec 14, 2015
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Health
Low sugar diet makes foods taste sweeter but does not change preferred level of sweetness, study finds
A new study from scientists at the Monell Center and collaborators reveals that while foods such as vanilla pudding taste sweeter following three months on a low-sugar diet, the level of sweetness most preferred in foods ...
Nov 25, 2015
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Medical research
Scientists turn tastes on and off by activating and silencing clusters of brain cells
Most people probably think that we perceive the five basic tastes—sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami (savory)—with our tongue, which then sends signals to our brain "telling" us what we've tasted. However, scientists ...
Nov 18, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Feelings of gratitude increase the consumption of sweets
Gratitude is universally considered a social good—the warm feeling that results from a kindness received.
Aug 19, 2015
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Genetics
Some like it sweet, others not so much: It's partly in the genes
A new study from the Monell Center and collaborating institutions suggests that a single set of genes affects a person's perception of sweet taste, regardless of whether the sweetener is a natural sugar or a non-caloric sugar ...
Jul 16, 2015
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Other
That neat and tidy map of tastes on the tongue you learned in school is all wrong
Everybody has seen the tongue map – that little diagram of the tongue with different sections neatly cordoned off for different taste receptors. Sweet in the front, salty and sour on the sides and bitter at the back.
Jul 7, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research shows noisy environments influence taste perception
Airline passengers who eat meals vary in their ability to taste sweet, sour, bitter and salty flavors. In studying how airplane noise affects the palate, Cornell food scientists have found sweetness suppressed and a tasty, ...
May 13, 2015
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Neuroscience
Stress hormone receptors localized in sweet taste cells
According to new research from the Monell Center, receptors for stress-activated hormones have been localized in oral taste cells responsible for detection of sweet, umami, and bitter. The findings suggest that these hormones, ...
Jun 3, 2014
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