Search results for bitter:
Food peptides activate bitter taste receptors
Biology /
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Monell Center and Tokyo University of Agriculture have used a novel molecular method to identify chemical compounds from common foods that activate human bitter taste receptors.
A ton of bitter melon produces sweet results for diabetes
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Scientists have uncovered the therapeutic properties of bitter melon, a vegetable and traditional Chinese medicine, that make it a powerful treatment for Type 2 diabetes.
Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Spanish researchers say they're a step closer to resolving a "mystery of evolution" -- why some people like Brussels sprouts but others hate them.
Small intestine can sense and react to bitter toxins in food
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine research finds that bitterness also slows the digestive process, keeping bad food in the stomach longer and increasing the ...
Airway cells use 'tasting' mechanism to detect and clear harmful substances
Jul 24, 2009 |
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The same mechanism that helps you detect bad-tasting and potentially poisonous foods may also play a role in protecting your airway from harmful substances, according to a study by scientists at the University ...
From delicious to death: Understanding taste
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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Despite the significance of taste to both human gratification and survival, a basic understanding of this primal sense is still unfolding.
Helping the medicine go down
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 21, 2008 |
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Getting little Doug and Debbie to take a spoonful of medicine is more than just a rite of passage for frustrated parents. Children's refusal to swallow liquid medication — and their tendency to vomit it back ...
Battling bitter coffee -- chemists vs. main source of coffee bitterness
Aug 21, 2007 |
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Bitter taste can ruin a cup of coffee. Now, chemists in Germany and the United States say they have identified the chemicals that appear to be largely responsible for java's bitterness, a finding that could ...
Studies of population genetics, evolution are an exercise in bad taste
Feb 16, 2007 |
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DALLAS – Feb. 16, 2007 – Scientific studies of why foods such as Brussels sprouts and stout beer are horribly bitter-tasting to some people but palatable to others are shedding light on a number of questions, from the mechanisms ...
Critical genetic link found between human taste differences and nicotine dependence
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Could an aversion to bitter substances or an overall heightened sense of taste help protect some people from becoming addicted to nicotine? That's what researchers at UVA have found using an innovative new method they've ...
Bitter Taste Identifies Poisons in Foods
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center report that bitter taste perception of vegetables is influenced by an interaction between variants of taste genes and the presence of naturally-occurring toxins ...
Taste gene may play role in smoking
Feb 22, 2006 |
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Recent research on the genetics of smoking has focused on genes that are thought to be related to nicotine metabolism, personality traits, and regulation of emotions. According to a genetic study just published ...
Taste test may identify best drugs for depression
Dec 06, 2006 |
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New research has shown that it might be possible to use taste as an indicator as to whether someone is depressed, and as a way of determining which is the most suitable drug to treat their depression.
Study: How sweet it is -- or is it?
Mar 29, 2006 |
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An Ohio State University study suggests the most important factor in what kind of sweetener people prefer has more to do with sourness than sweetness.
That tastes -- sweet? Sour? No, it's definitely calcium!
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Chemists in Philadelphia are reporting a discovery that could expand the palate of human tastes — sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory — to include a new taste sensation that they term "calcium."
