Taste is one of our most vital senses, shaping appetite, nutrition, and quality of life. Yet taste buds are fragile, relying heavily on the nerves that connect them to the brain. When those nerves are ...

BOSTON - There may be yet another basic type of taste. We generally know about the five - sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami - but a team of researchers at University of Southern California ...

Some taste cells are multitaskers that can detect bitter, sweet, umami and sour stimuli, a new study finds. The research challenges conventional notions of how taste works. In the past, it was thought ...