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

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

Food and flavor analysis can gain valuable insights through Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS). To demonstrate its capabilities, the IONICON Applied Science Team conducted a ...

While taste is the top driver of food and beverage purchases, research suggests that aesthetic appeal is just as crucial, as it is what consumers notice first – particularly as natural colors gain ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the ...

Demonstrating lollipop user interface to simulate taste in virtual and augmented reality environments. Credit: Lu et al, 2024/PNAS Virtual reality (VR) technology has long sought to incorporate the ...

In this month’s special edition – Flavors and colors in focus: From emerging consumer demands to new manufacturing strategies – FoodNavigator-USA explores how industry stakeholders are responding to ...

Soy has been a kitchen hero in Asia for centuries. It's packed with nutrition and health perks and contains all the essential amino acids, like those found in meat. But when it crossed over to Western ...

Chocolate is more than a sweet treat. Its rich taste begins long before the beans are roasted or molded into bars. A key part of that journey is fermentation, the natural process that gives cocoa its ...