WASHINGTON (AP) – Packing on pounds seems to dull people’s sense of taste, and puzzled researchers turned to mice to figure out why: Obesity, they found, can rob the tongue of taste buds. If Tuesday’s ...

After a short bout with what I suspect was COVID-19 at the end of July, my sense of taste is slowly returning. It comes in shadows and hints, and most days I still can’t taste anything, but I am ...

Tasting science used to be so simple. Alas, no more. Back in 1901, a German scientist opined various taste receptors were orderly segregated on your tongue in specific places. Sweet on your tip, salty ...

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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 you once despised certain foods and now crave them, there's a very good explanation for the change: Your tastes can evolve over time. Your tongue is filled with taste buds — as many as 10,000 when ...

Researchers in China have developed the world’s first artificial tongue that can both taste and learn—processing flavor information entirely in liquid, just like a real human organ. The study, ...

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 ...

A white tongue can be caused by dehydration, a yeast infection, or smoking. If the white film doesn't move when you scrape it ...

May 5 (UPI) --Scientists in Quebec have developed an artificial tongue that can taste the flavor profiles of maple syrup. The plasmonic tongue is a fairly simple colorimetric test featuring gold ...

Once upon a time, you’d battle it out with you mom over eating your veggies. Broccoli? No thanks. Tomatoes? Hard pass. But fast-forward to today, and that face ...