ONCE in a while, some of us experience something funny in the mouth… the mouth tastes bitter, sour, metallic or salty! Many people associate bitter mouth with on-coming malaria attack. One woman aged ...

COLUMBUS , Ohio – The tongue's ability to differentiate between sweet and bitter tastes may reside in the same taste bud cells, a new study reports. The study explains the discovery of a chemical ...

If your homemade aioli tastes more bitter than bold, the culprit could be hiding in the very foundation of the recipe: the garlic. According to Chris Whitehair, owner of Flower City Flavor Company, ...

Scientists are unraveling the secrets of how our mouths can taste bitterness. A new study details the structure of a key bitter taste receptor and finds evidence that cholesterol seems to play an ...

How does our sense of taste work, and why did it evolve? What are taste buds, and how do they register the five basic sensations of sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami (a Japanese word describing ...

Bitter taste receptors inside cancer cells have been found to be activated in the presence of anti-cancer drugs. Shutting ...

A research team from the Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, Okayama University of Science, has made a ...