A research paper published in 2013 dedicated to “taste receptors and sperm physiology” found out that several parts of the ...

What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was ...

A study by the Technical University of Munich identified new bitter compounds in roasted Arabica coffee and examined their ...

Bitter taste receptors, known as type 2 taste receptors (TAS2Rs), play a crucial role in our ability to detect potentially harmful substances in food. These receptors are part of a sophisticated ...

All vertebrates have taste receptors similar to ours, though not necessarily in the same places. “There are more taste receptors on the whiskers of a large catfish than there are on the tongues ...

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Why does coffee taste more bitter to some people than it does to others? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich have now come closer to ...

“Taste stimuli are detected by taste receptors in taste buds. You have small pink bumps on the tip of your tongue, which are fungiform papillae – these house taste buds”, explains Dr Qian ...

It tastes about ten times more bitter than caffeine and activates two of the approximately 25 bitter taste receptor types found in the human body, namely the TAS2R43 and TAS2R46 receptors.

But no one really knew why. It turns out that saccharin doesn’t just activate sweet taste receptors, it also blocks bitter ones — the same bitter taste receptors that cyclamate activates.

A study by researchers at the Technical University of Munich links genetics to how individuals perceive the bitterness in coffee. They identified compounds in Arabica coffee influencing taste. Despite ...