Science news articles about 'taste buds'

  • Good news for veggies: Personal values deceive taste buds

    Many heavy meat eaters believe they eat a lot of meat because of the taste. But according to groundbreaking new research in the Journal of Consumer Research, the reason that a beef burger tastes ...
  • Mice Have Six Taste Buds Instead Of Five (And Maybe We Do Too)

    ... colleagues with the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia described research they say demonstrates that a taste for calcium exists in mice. With mice and humans sharing many of the same genes ...
  • Girls have superior sense of taste to boys

    ... and sour tastes at varying intensities, to establish which sourness or sweetness they prefer, how many taste buds they have and, finally, the children answered a number of questions on their eating ...
  • Sour comes after a lemon has gone

    ... . Inada said "The PKD1L3-PKD2L1 channels exist on the taste bud in the side and the inner part of tongue, ... found here, helps human to keep sour taste sensation even after acid stimulus has been washed ...
  • Primitive Sushi?

    ... no resemblance to life today, except perhaps when it came to taste buds. New findings prove our pre-historic brothers and sisters shared our affinity for seafood. They actively hunted ...
  • How to cut down on your sodium intake

    Cutting down on sodium isn't easy, but it's possible -- and your taste buds will adapt. Here are tips from sources such as the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Assn.:
  • Heads up: Stanford DNA study reveals evolution of beer yeasts

    ... means "storage." Most yeast reproduce primarily by asexual budding - pinching off one identical daughter cell after ... you're drinking beer every day, you might want something that tasted pretty good."

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