Small intestine can sense and react to bitter toxins in food

Monday, October 13, 2008 - 04:14 in Health & Medicine

Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine research finds that bitterness also slows the digestive process, keeping bad food in the stomach longer and increasing the chances that it will be expelled...

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