Taste receptors help you enjoy the flavor of your favorite foods, but now we know they do more. Scientists have already found taste receptors in unexpected places like the gut, pancreas, and brain.

Scientists just mapped your tongue. It may be the key to helping you lose weight - Understanding how we crave sweet treats ...

Infographic: Taste in the Mouth, Gut, and Airways View the three full size graphics PDF ANDREW SWIFT. Taste-bud receptors, primarily on the tongue, sense the qualities of salty, sour, bitter, sweet, ...

A team of researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a new graphene-based sensor design ...

Taste perception begins when nonvolatile chemicals in food, called tastants, are placed in the mouth and activate taste receptor cells (TRCs), which recognize all five primary taste sensory ...

Take, for instance, a taste receptor for bitterness called TAS2R38. Scientists found small changes in the genetic code for the TAS2R38 gene among different people.

Researchers discover how we perceive bitter taste. Humans can sense five different tastes: sour, sweet, umami, bitter, and salty, using specialized sensors on our tongues called taste receptors.

The sensation that we know as taste involves an intricate system of nerves that relay information from the tongue’s taste buds and the nose’s olfactory receptors directly to the brain.

While taste receptors are traditionally associated with the tongue and our ability to perceive flavors, recent studies have shown that these receptors exist in other parts of the body, where they ...

A new study describes an exciting discovery that changes the way we understand human bitter taste receptors. The research has revealed a hidden "pocket" inside one of the body's bitter taste ...

Scientists have discovered that your heart can actually sense sweetness, thanks to special receptors once thought to live only on your tongue.