Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a sensitive bunch.

Have you ever noticed how melted ice cream tastes sweeter than frozen scoops? Or how soup that is too hot barely has any ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Brad Spakowitz is a man of good taste. He moves on from talking about bones in 3 Brilliant Minutes ...

Q: Can you explain how taste buds work? A: Who says that there’s no accounting for good taste? Sure you can! One person’s idea of a heavenly good taste is another’s unpleasant experience. We all have ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — 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 ...

“You don’t know what you’re missing till it’s gone” is a truism that certainly applies to taste. It took a pandemic for taste to get attention. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

The miracle berry “rewires” the way your taste buds work, turning sour or acidic flavors into a sweet sensation. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Getty Images) As one writer put it, it’s “a ...