Your taste buds may or may not be able to tell real sugar from a sweetener substitute like Splenda, but your gut can.

If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.

A taste receptor sensitive to acidity in fruit flies is in the same group as human sour receptors, research finds.

In a blind taste test, Danes preferred farmed salmon to wild. But when they learned where the fish came from, they totally changed their minds.

Climate change stands to alter the flavor and aroma of your morning coffee, a research review finds.

Reduced brain volume in people who have experienced COVID-19 resembles brain changes typically seen in older adults. The implications of these findings are not yet clear.

Cabbage butterflies are one of few insect groups that have evolved changing tastes to tolerate chemical defenses of their plant hosts.

Beer connoisseurs may be onto something: Craft beer is scientifically unique when compared to mass-produced brews, researchers say.

Our brains process taste information before health information. That might explain why we choose a candy bar instead of an apple.