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By Mar 5, 2021
Health

This strange condition could explain why your tongue feels weird

You’ve heard of auditory and visual hallucinations, but what about oral phantoms?
By Oct 22, 2020
DIY

There’s a science to food pairing, and you can learn it here

Reading charts, learning aromas and textures, and understanding how one ingredient—in this case garlic—can be altered by the way it’s...
By Oct 16, 2020
Science

How mystery flavors confuse our taste buds

People have tried to guess what’s behind the White Mystery Airhead for ages, but no one’s gotten it right so...
By May 1, 2020
Science

This weird trick can make an onion taste like an apple

Can you pull it off?
By Jan 21, 2020
Science

No, you can’t taste anything with your testicles

That’d mean you could taste with your intestines and bladder, too.
By Dec 11, 2019
Health

How your tongue tells your brain what you’re tasting

All hail the mighty taste bud.
By Nov 28, 2019
Science

Why don’t fake flavors taste like real fruit?

The chemical composition of fresh fruit flavor is surprisingly complicated.
By Nov 14, 2017
Health

Here’s how scientists are tricking you into eating your veggies

Step one: Plant some fake childhood memories in your noggin.
By Aug 11, 2017
Science

We finally know how your tongue tells your brain what you’re tasting

They used to keep you alive, but now they just give you a sweet tooth.
By Feb 13, 2017
Science

Texture is the final frontier of food science

Tweaking texture could give us healthy versions of our favorite junk foods—and that's just the beginning