Discover how bitter foods can retrain your taste buds and improve metabolism by reawakening your body's natural systems.

The discovery could help create new "sensorially appealing foods" that improve digestion and feelings of fullness.

Our early human ancestors may have relied on their sense of taste to identify nutritious new foods and avoid toxins. As a result, scientists think we tend to dislike bitter foods because plant ...

Have you ever wondered why some people cannot stand bitter foods like kale, broccoli, black coffee or dark chocolate, while others enjoy them? This difference in taste is mainly because of a gene ...

The aversion to bitter foods is inborn too, she said, and it also has survival value: It helps us avoid ingesting toxins that plants evolved to keep from being eaten—including by us. Can science ...

Scientists have discovered what could be one of the most bitter substances known to date. The potent chemical compound comes ...

The most bitter-tasting substance on Earth is the bitter bracket fungus, also known as Amaropostia stiptica. It was ...

In doing so, they discovered one of the potentially most bitter substances known to date. The study results, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, expand our knowledge of ...