New sensory nutrition research reveals how bitter foods like dark chocolate may sharpen memory and attention through taste-triggered brain activation.

The miracle fruit, also known as Synsepalum dulcificum, works by making sour and bitter foods taste sweet for 30 to 40 minutes. This helps chemotherapy patients, who often experie ...

Discover the biology and evolution behind why humans naturally dislike bitter tastes, yet often grow to love foods like IPAs, coffee, and tea. Explore the genetic and sensory science that shapes our ...

If you have a taste for bitter foods and drinks, one study suggests you could be more likely to exhibit psychopathic and sadistic personality traits -- but, as always, there's a catch. In 2015, ...

If you have an aversion to the bitter taste of grapefruit, cabbage, broccoli and even alcohol, you might be a "super-taster," and you're not alone – as many as one in four people have the genetic code ...

If you have a taste for bitter foods and drinks, one study suggests you could be more likely to exhibit psychopathic and sadistic personality traits -- but, as always, there's a catch. In 2015, ...