A stomachache can make a once-enjoyable food seem disgusting. New research in rats clarifies the creation of taste aversion in the brain.

A stomachache can make a once-enjoyable food seem disgusting. New research in rats clarifies the creation of taste aversion in the brain.

A unique group of neurons lights up in female mosquitoes only when they're eating the combined ingredients of blood, researchers report.

Researchers have found taste cells in mice that respond to as many as four different tastes. Humans are likely to have the same cells, the researchers say.

"...we found no consistent effect on liking or preference. The source of bitterness did not influence which beers they liked."

Sweet foods that are cooler don't taste as good to us, but why that is has been a mystery. New research may have the answer.

Some baby foods that claim to have loads of dark green vegetables taste more like fruit than veggies. Here's why that's a problem.

Multiple opsin proteins, known for decades to be required for vision, also function as taste receptors, new research with fruit flies finds.