That extra splash of hot sauce or pile of jalapeños on your plate might reveal more than adventurous taste buds. Your ...

Many of us already know that orange juice tastes like a bitter mess after you've just brushed your teeth. The reason why has ...

Bitter taste receptors (T2Rs) belong to the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily. In humans, 25 T2Rs mediate bitter taste sensation. In addition to the oral cavity, T2Rs are expressed in many ...

Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can ...

People who want savory foods — such as tacos, cheeses, and steak — have a tendency to be a bit serious and may have a dry ...

Discover how bitter foods like dark greens trigger hormonal changes that naturally reduce sugar cravings and rewire your taste preferences.

Octopuses don’t think like we do. In fact, most of their neurons aren’t in their brains at all. Instead, they’re spread ...

Birds have evolved a unique tolerance for sour foods by rewiring a key taste receptor, reshaping their diets and ecosystems.

A new study has uncovered how birds evolved to tolerate—and even enjoy—extremely sour foods that most mammals avoid.

Lai Ren, a researcher and the corresponding author of the paper at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of ...

In addition, they found that inhibiting the sour taste receptor OTOP1 significantly weakened the ability of pigeons and canaries to tolerate acids, confirming the central role of this receptor in ...

Designing compounds that bias G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signalling to preferentially activate either G-protein- or β-arrestin-mediated downstream signalling is an effective strategy to ...