Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy level. The average person in the United States now consumes more than 100 ...

Could your tongue be the key to helping you lose weight? With the aid of new research, scientists say it may be. For the ...

Yet, despite more than 20 years of study, the sweet receptor’s precise architecture remained elusive, even as scientists ...

“Taste receptor cells sensitive to each tastant are present in taste buds across the tongue, meaning that there is no taste map representing regions of the tongue corresponding to specific ...

Fat and calcium are among the leading candidates—both are believed to be detected by receptors on the tongue—but there’s no consensus yet. Taste receptors alone don’t produce tastes ...

The bitter bracket fungus, Amaropostia stiptica, is probably not available at your local farmer's market, and if you didn't ...

Best known as the tongue-tingling punch behind salty licorice, this sharp taste might just deserve a spot among the basic five. Taste is a type of chemical sensing picked up by special receptors ...

One compound discovered during the study, oligoporin D, stimulated the bitter taste receptor on the tongue, called TAS2R46, even at the lowest concentrations. Just a gram of oligoporin D dissolved ...

Cryo-EM map of the human sweet taste receptor (blue and green) changing shape as it binds a molecule that tastes sweet (red and green).