This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine and is part of National Geographic’s Future of Food initiative, a special five-year project that seeks to show how ...

Contrary to current scientific dogma, fat does have taste after all, according to Purdue University research. For decades scientists agreed on four basic food tastes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. In ...

As it turns out, it's not entirely the airlines' fault that food tastes different at 30,000 feet than it does on terra firma — and it's not all in your ... Food and drink do taste different ...

taste in food differs from person to person. But why does the same food bring about such different responses in different people? And the all-important question, can you train yourself to like ...