My ice cream looks salty: the taste expectations
Surely you’ve heard that the taste buds on our tongue are responsible for whether we feel the sweet, bitter, salty, or sour taste of a dish. You may even know that the tongue is not as rigidly divided into taste zones as the illustrations of a biology textbook suggested. However, this still does not fully […]
A very sweet article
Hands up if you like sweets! Chocolates, candies, cakes, and cookies… Why can’t we just get enough of them? How do we perceive taste? Let’s start by looking at the mechanism of taste perception. What we perceive as a sweet taste is usually caused by sugars and their derivatives as fructose or lactose. Sometimes responding to […]