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New sensory nutrition research reveals how bitter foods like dark chocolate may sharpen memory and attention through taste-triggered brain activation.

A babies will put almost anything in their mouths, even a sour lemon, without flinching. But bitter foods are quickly ejected with a grimace. We are born with zero tolerance for bitterness, presumably ...

A bitter taste is traditionally considered a warning sign of potentially toxic substances. But not all bitter substances are harmful. For example, some peptides and free amino acids taste bitter, even ...

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The photo shows PI Dr. Maik Behrens and PhD student Silvia Schäfer sitting in front of a computer monitor in the office. A phylogenetic tree of bitter taste receptors can be seen on the screen. A ...

The miracle fruit, also known as Synsepalum dulcificum, works by making sour and bitter foods taste sweet for 30 to 40 minutes. This helps chemotherapy patients, who often experie ...

Bitter foods are usually good-for-you foods; a proverbial pill of truth many people may find hard to swallow. But Barb Stuckey would like people to give them a try. For bitter foods can contain many ...

If you have an aversion to the bitter taste of grapefruit, cabbage, broccoli and even alcohol, you might be a "super-taster," and you're not alone – as many as one in four people have the genetic code ...