GLP-1 drugs alter taste perceptions, challenging food makers to adapt by enhancing umami flavours, balancing sweetness, and ...

It's a combination of how a food smells, looks, and sounds. When we eat celery, it has to crunch. ... Taste Over Time. As we get older, our bodies slow down. So, too, do our taste buds.

You know you’ve said it. We all have. “Mmm, that looks so delicious — I want to try some!” That’s because when it comes to what we eat, it’s not just a matter of taste. What foods and drinks look like ...

Pickles. Sports drinks. Your favorite breakfast cereal. Artificial food dyes are lurking in a lot of stuff — but that’s about ...

The effect of food on our taste predispositions doesn't stop in early life: What we eat as adults, especially our sugar and salt intake, can also shape how we perceive and potentially choose food.

Through saliva, “we detect chemical information of food: the flavor, the taste," said Jianshe Chen, a food scientist at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, China.

Simply put: When your nasal passages are dry, it’s harder to smell, and because scent is actually responsible for roughly 80% of what we taste, it’s also harder to taste.

We are on the cusp of a radical shift in how we experience food, and extended reality (XR) – a fusion of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)—is leading the charge.