News tagged with umami taste
Variants of 'umami' taste receptor contribute to our individualized flavor worlds
Using a combination of sensory, genetic, and in vitro approaches, researchers from the Monell Center confirm that the T1R1-T1R3 taste receptor plays a role in human umami (amino acid) taste.
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Receptor for tasting fat identified in humans (w/ Audio)
Why do we like fatty foods so much? We can blame our taste buds.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Why certain flavor combinations melt in your mouth
Do all cuisines thrive on kindred flavors? New research suggests that some cuisines may be based on combinations of dissimilar ingredients, but critics say the work is not filtering out flavors that may be ...
Dec 26, 2011 |
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How does the brain know what the tongue knows?
Each taste, from sweet to salty, is sensed by a unique set of neurons in the brains of mice, new research reveals. The findings demonstrate that neurons that respond to specific tastes are arranged discretely in what the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 01, 2011 |
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How do you stop tasting?
New findings may lend insight into why some people are especially sensitive to bitter tastes. Scientists from the Monell Center and Givaudan Flavors have identified a protein inside of taste cells that acts to shorten bitter ...
Aug 02, 2011 |
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Bitterness induces nausea, swallowing not required
The mere taste of something extremely bitter—even if you don't swallow it at all—is enough to cause that dreaded feeling of nausea and to set your stomach churning, according to a new study reported in the April ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Human taste cells regenerate in a dish
Following years of futile attempts, new research from the Monell Center demonstrates that living human taste cells can be maintained in culture for at least seven months. The findings provide scientists with a valuable tool ...
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Updating the Mary Poppins solution with a better bitter blocker
With millions of adults and children avoiding nutritious foods because of the bitter taste, and gagging or vomiting when forced to take bitter liquid medicines, scientists today reported an advance toward a high-tech version ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Creating the perfect Bloody Mary: Good chemistry of fresh ingredients
After tackling the chemistry of coffee, tea, fruit juices, soda pop, beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages, why not take on the ultimate challenge, the Mount Everest of cocktails, what may be the most chemically complex ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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New findings help explain our most mysterious sense
From your first sip of morning coffee to the minty zing of toothpaste before bed, your tongue is bombarded daily with a flood of flavors. How we disentangle and identify all those tastes is still pretty mysterious. ...
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Sour research, sweet results: How people perceive sour flavors
This Thanksgiving, when you bite into the cranberry sauce and the tartness smacks your tongue as hard as that snide comment from your sister, consider the power of sour. Neurobiology researchers at the University of Southern ...
Nov 24, 2010 |
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