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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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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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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Neuroscience
Taste and its two ways to the brain
There are a few ways we perceive food, and not all are particularly well-understood. We know that much of it happens in the olfactory bulb, a small lump of tissue between the eyes and behind the nose, but how the stimuli ...
Feb 18, 2021
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Genetics
Taste buds may play role in fostering obesity in offspring
Cornell food scientists show in animal studies that a mother's high-fat diet may lead to more sweet-taste receptors and a greater attraction to unhealthy food in their offspring—resulting in poor feeding behavior, obesity ...
Sep 11, 2020
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Medical research
New type of taste cell discovered in taste buds
Our mouths may be home to a newly discovered set of multi-tasking taste cells that—unlike most known taste cells, which detect individual tastes—are capable of detecting sour, sweet, bitter and umami stimuli. A research ...
Aug 13, 2020
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Neuroscience
What happens when food first touches your tongue
A new study might explain why humans register some tastes more quickly than others, potentially due to each flavor's molecular size.
Jul 9, 2020
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Medical research
Taste-related protein provides target for drugs to treat neurological disorders
Understanding how the brain processes sweet, bitter and umami tastes may one day help researchers design more effective drugs for neurological disorders.
Dec 2, 2019
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Neuroscience
Your mouth helps you smell tasty foods
Why do certain foods smell good to us?
Feb 13, 2019
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