A new study describes an exciting discovery that changes the way we understand human bitter taste receptors. The research has revealed a hidden "pocket" inside one of the body's bitter taste ...

What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was ...

A study by the Technical University of Munich identified new bitter compounds in roasted Arabica coffee and examined their ...

Arianna Maffei in her lab viewing a slice of brain that shows the mark of the infusion in the gustatory cortex (identified by ...

Why does coffee taste more bitter to some people than it does to others? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich have now come closer to ...

known to taste about 10 times more bitter than caffeine and activate two of the roughly 25 bitter taste receptors in the ...

It tastes about ten times more bitter than caffeine and activates two of the approximately 25 bitter taste receptor types found in the human body, namely the TAS2R43 and TAS2R46 receptors.

Researchers have uncovered how genetic predisposition may play a role in determining how bitter coffee tastes.

A study by researchers at the Technical University of Munich links genetics to how individuals perceive the bitterness in coffee. They identified compounds in Arabica coffee influencing taste. Despite ...