Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person cooking vegan food, adding salt - Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images It happens more often than you think. An ...

As we age, our senses naturally change. However, if you’ve noticed that your sense of taste isn’t what it used to be, it has changed with time. A recent study suggests that losing the ability to taste ...

BOSTON - There may be yet another basic type of taste. We generally know about the five - sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami - but a team of researchers at University of Southern California ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers say the new sixth taste activates a strong sensation in receptors that detect sour tastes, which could be a survival mechanism. Rich Legg/Getty Images Researchers say ...

Liman and her team of researchers published their findings earlier this month in the journal “Nature Communications.” They wrote in the introduction to the study that ammonium — and its gas, ammonia — ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. We’ve all heard of the five tastes our tongues can detect—sweet, sour, bitter, savory-umami and salty. But the real number is actually six, ...

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