Brushing your teeth with toothpaste, particularly due to sodium lauryl sulfate, temporarily alters taste bud receptors. This disruption reduces sweetness and amplifies bitterness, making orange juice ...

Marc Schulte/Unsplash You've just cleaned your teeth, you're feeling minty fresh and ready to climb into bed. You take a sip ...

Menthol activates TRPM8 receptors on nerve endings in your mouth, which are the same receptors responsible for sensing cold.

The orange juice that many people like to drink with breakfast is naturally high in sugar. But it also contains citric acid, ...

Marketed as the healthier alternative to sugary drinks, diet sodas may actually confuse your metabolism, alter appetite ...

Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a ...

Another reason for chili plants to hold back on the heat: Capsaicin is a gut irritant that can speed up digestion. If a bird poops out seeds too fast, that’s a drawback, since the plant benefits most ...

Our preference for sweet tastes represents an elegant evolutionary adaptation. The ability to detect sweet substances likely ...

Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

Why are gourmets seemingly able to detect subtle nuances in taste that others miss? Researchers at Tohoku University have uncovered part of the answer by demonstrating that taste sensitivity can be ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

Experts weigh in on what’s actually possible. Ask Well Experts weigh in on what’s actually possible. Credit...Eric Helgas for The New York Times Supported by By Simar Bajaj Simar Bajaj has been ...